29 U.S.C. § 551 — Establishment of Department; Secretary; seal
submitted 113 years ago by ch. 141 to r/title-29-LABOR · 150 words · no verdicts yet
This section establishes the Department of Labor and the position of Secretary of Labor. It states the Department’s purposes and provides for its seal.
The Government must have an executive department called the Department of Labor. It has a Secretary of Labor as its head. The President appoints the Secretary with the Senate’s advice and consent, and the Secretary serves under the same tenure rules as heads of other executive departments. Title 4 of the Revised Statutes, including its amendments, applies to the Department. The Department’s purpose is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the United States’ wage earners, improve their working conditions, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment. The Secretary must have an official seal made in a design approved by the President, and courts must recognize that seal.
There shall be an executive department in the Government to be called the Department of Labor, with a Secretary of Labor, who shall be the head thereof, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and whose tenure of office shall be like that of the heads of the other executive departments. The provisions of title 4 of the Revised Statutes, including all amendments thereto, shall be applicable to said department. The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. The said Secretary shall cause a seal of office to be made for the said department of such device as the President shall approve and judicial notice shall be taken of the said seal.
Source credit: (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736; Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 549, § 4, 43 Stat. 1301.)
- 1913Enacted · Act of Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141 · 37 Stat. 736
- 1925Amended · Act of Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 549 · 43 Stat. 1301
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