Department & Agency
This agency "champions policies and standards that safeguard the interests of working women, advocates for the equality and economic security of women and their families, and promotes quality work environments."
What is the Women's Bureau?
Name at least two of the DOL solicitors that we regularly work with.
Who are Tyler McLeod, Courtney Whitten, or Karen Bobela?
This person serves as the Southwest's Regional Director of Enforcement.
Who is Kimberly Avery?
This city is home to the United States Air Force Academy.
What is Colorado Springs?
The Olympic rings are comprised of these five colors.
What are black, red, blue, yellow, and green?
The most recently passed Act that is enforced by WHD was signed into law in 1993 and goes by this name.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
In the context of H-2A regulations, the acronym AEWR stands for this phrase.
What is the Adverse Effect Wage Rate?
The Denver DO is one of two offices in the region that covers three states. What is the other Southwest region District Office that has three states under its jurisdiction?
What is the Salt Lake City, Utah District Office?
This state's motto is "Nil sine numine" which translates to "Nothing without the Deity", adapted from Virgil's Aeneid.
What is Colorado?
Paris, and this other European city, are the only two sites to have hosted the Olympic games three times.
What is London?
Prior to 1913, the Department of Labor was combined with this executive Cabinet-level department.
What is the Department of Commerce?
The Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act (CWHSSA) is only applicable to contracts for construction or services in excess of what dollar amount?
What is $100,000?
This DO is the southernmost office in the region.
What is the McAllen DO?
North and South Dakota became states in November 1889 alongside these two states which share a border with Canada.
What are Montana and Washington?
Women competed for the first time at the 1900 Games in Paris and competed in all of the following sports, EXCEPT for one: tennis, sailing, archery, croquet, or golf
What is archery?
This DOL agency's mission is to "to strengthen global labor standards, enforce labor commitments among trading partners, promote racial and gender equity, and combat international child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking."
What is the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)?
In H-2B investigations, violations are classified under these two categories.
What is a substantial failure to comply or misrepresentation of a material fact?
This DO won the Eagle Award in last year, FY23.
What is the San Antonio DO?
"Dakota" means this in the native American Sioux language.
What is friend or ally?
This new addition to the summer Olympics will be debuting for the first time at the Paris 2024 games.
What is breaking or breakdancing?
In 2023, WHD recovered this amount in back wages for 163,000 workers (estimates that are +/- 50 million of the correct answer will be accepted).
What is $274 million?
The 541 salary thresholds have recently changed, with the weekly minimum salary having increased from $684 to this new amount (amounts for either 2024 or 2025 will be accepted).
What is $844 per week? (Or $1,128 per week starting January 1, 2025).
How many district offices are in the Southwest region (excluding the Regional Office)?
What is 11? (Albuquerque, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Little Rock, McAllen, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, and San Antonio)
The longest continually operating gold mine (1877 to 2002) in the history of the U.S. is located in this state.
What is South Dakota? (The Homestake Mine)
The official mascots for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are named after this symbol of France.
What are the Phryges or Phrygian caps?