Newsletter Photos November 20, 2014
100,000 submitted applications for health insurance on the 1st day of the 2015 enrollment season.
Sydney Janey, center, listens to Lenere Smith at Boston roundtable on Nov. 17 for a discussion with Secretary Perez on the challenges facing women in today's workplace.
Secretary Perez visits the Sheet Metal Workers Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee facility in Dorchester, Mass., on November 17, 2014. The facility is a leader in expanding apprenticeship training to under-represented communities that can serve as a model as the department looks to double the number of apprentices over the next five years.
Secretary Perez takes questions from the news media in Nashville on Nov. 19 following a roundtable discussion on the Affordable Care Act.
LetterLogic CEO Sherry Deutschmann and employee give Secretary Perez a tour of their facilities in Nashville, Tenn.
Deputy Secretary Chris Lu (left), Associate Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs Mark Mittelhauser (center), and Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Portia Wu (right) discuss workforce development during a workshop co-sponsored by the department and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18, 2014.
Secretary Perez (second from right) listens in during a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship on November 18, 2014. The group is helping the Department of Labor take several steps to transform the registered apprenticeship program for the 21st century, including making an unprecedented $100 million investment to expand the program to new industries and occupations.
Timothy Noah, editor of Politico Pro Labor & Employment, listens as Secretary Perez discusses increasing the minimum wage at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20.
Secretary Perez and Mayor Karl Dean meet with stakeholders and community leaders in Nashville to discuss the President's "My Brother's Keeper" Initiative.
Left to right: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training Terry Gerton; 2014 National Guard Spouse of the Year, Alicia Hinds-Ward; U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez; Dr. Ingrid Herrera-Yee, 2013 National Guard Military Spouse of the Year; Dr. Shelley Kimball, 2013 Coast Guard Spouse of the Year; and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training Gerri Fiala, meet before a webcast on military spouse issues, Nov. 20, 2014.
Capping off his visit to Nashville, Tenn., Secretary Perez provided the keynote address to the Association for Career and Technical Education's CareerTech VISION 2014 awards banquet on Nov. 19.
Wage and Hour Division Administrator David Weil spoke about the need to raise the national minimum wage at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention on Nov. 13 in Washington, D.C.
Left to right: Mark Mason, USDA Rural Development; Jerry Rickett, Kentucky Highlands Investment Corp, and Ben Seigel, DOL Employment Training Administration, at the site of KHIC's workforce housing initiative in Whitley County, in the Kentucky Highlands Promise Zone.
Left to right: Samantha Hennes, CareFusion, Kelly Jenkins-Pultz, Women's Bureau, and Christiane Hoffman, Qualcomm review the Women's Bureau's new factsheet on pay secrecy.
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs' Theresa Lujan (second from right) stands with other panel participants at the Arizona Industry Liaison Group conference.
Ruben Martinez.