JFK meets with Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, center, and Assistant Secretary James Reynolds in July 1963. Kennedy tapped Wirtz to head the Department of Labor in 1962 and Wirtz continued Kennedy's work at the Department throughout his seven year tenure
The WPPDA was amended in 1962, giving the U.S. Department of Labor interpretative and investigatory powers.Read the amendment here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-76/pdf/STATUTE-76-Pg43.pdf
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