Department & Agency History
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?
The PUMP Act signed into law in 2023 expanded rights for these employees.
Nursing mothers.
This state in the Southeast Region is the only state in the region that operates more than one District Office.
What is Florida? (Miami DO, Orlando DO, Tampa DO)
This national park stands as the most-visited national park in the U.S.
What is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
The Olympic rings are comprised of these five colors.
What are black, red, blue, yellow, and green?
One of the most recently passed Acts 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?
This person serves as the Southeast's Regional Director of Enforcement.
Who is Jeffrey Genkos?
Tennessee boasts this bird as its state bird.
What is the mockingbird?
This new addition to the summer Olympics debuted for the first time at the Paris 2024 games.
What is breaking or breakdancing?
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 $150,000 or $100,000 for Federal construction contracts not subject to the FAR?
How many district offices are in the Southeast region (excluding the Regional Office)?
What is 10? (Atlanta, Columbia, Gulf Coast/Birmingham, Jackson, Louisville, Miami, Nashville, Orlando, Raleigh, Tampa)
During which war did the state of Tennessee derive its nickname as the Volunteer State?
What is the War of 1812?
Paris, and this other European city, are the only two sites to have hosted the Olympic games three times.
What is London?
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?
The Southeast's Workplace Crimes Coordinator serves as the point of contact for which type of visas?
What are U and/or T visas?
Tennessee features more than how many caves and caverns, which is more than any other state (estimates that are +/- 1,000 of the correct answer will be accepted).
What is 9,200?
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?
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).
What is the name of the Southeast region's quarterly newsletter and what does the acronym stand for?
Before its admission to the Union as the 16th state in 1796, Tennessee was initially a part of which state?
What is North Carolina?
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?