Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry

Agency overview
Formed| 1913; 111 years ago (1913)
Jurisdiction| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Headquarters| Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Employees| 5,000
Agency executive|

* Nancy Walker, Secretary

Website| www.dli.pa.gov

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry is a cabinet-level agency in the Government of Pennsylvania. The agency is charged with the task of overseeing the health and safety of workers, enforcement of the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code, vocational rehabilitation for people with disabilities, and administration of unemployment benefits and Workers' compensation.[1]

## History

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When this agency was founded by Governor John Kinley Tener, John Price Jackson was appointed as the first Commissioner. Jackson was confirmed in post by Governor Martin Grove Brumbaugh on June 2, 1917, but took a leave of absence from state office when accepted a Commission in the US Army following the United States entry into the First World War.[2]

## Secretaries of Labor and Industry

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Name  | Dates served  | Appointed by

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John Price Jackson | 1913-1919  | John K. Tener
Clifford B. Connelley  | 1919-1923  | William Cameron Sproul
Royal Meeker | 1923-1925  | Gifford Pinchot
Richard H. Lansburgh | 1925-1927
Charles A. Waters | 1927-1929  | John Stuchell Fisher
Peter Glick  | 1929-1931
Arthur Miller Northrop  | 1931-1933  | Gifford Pinchot
Charlotte E. Carr | 1933-1935
Edward Noel Jones  | 1935  | George Howard Earle III
Ralph Moody Bashore  | 1935-1939
Lewis G. Hines  | 1939-1943  | Arthur James
William H. Chestnut  | 1943-1951  | Edward Martin
David M. Walker  | 1951-1955  | John S. Fine
John R. Torquato  | 1955-1957  | George M. Leader
William L. Batt, Jr.  | 1957-1961
A. Allen Sulcowe  | 1961-1963  | David L. Lawrence
William P. Young  | 1963-1967  | William Scranton
William Joseph Hart  | 1967-1968  | Raymond P. Shafer
John K. Tabor  | 1968-1969
Clifford L. Jones  | 1969-1970
Theodore Robb  | 1970-1971
Paul J. Smith  | 1971-1979  | Milton Shapp
Myron L. Joseph  | 1979  | Dick Thornburgh
Charles J. Lieberth  | 1979-1981
Barry H. Stern  | 1981-1984
James Knepper | 1984-1987
Harris Wofford | 1987-1991  | Bob Casey Sr.
Tom Foley | 1991-1994
Robert S. Barnett  | 1994-1995
Johnny J. Butler  | 1995-2003  | Tom Ridge
Stephen Schmerin | 2003–2008  | Ed Rendell
Sandi Vito | 2008–2011
Julia K. Hearthway  | 2011–2015  | Tom Corbett
Kathy Manderino | 2015–2017  | Tom Wolf
Jerry Oleksiak | 2017-2020
Jennifer Berrier  | 2020–2023
Nancy Walker  | 2023–present  | Josh Shapiro

## See also

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* Government of Pennsylvania
* List of Pennsylvania state agencies

## References

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1. ^ Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "About Labor & Industry". pa.gov. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
2. ^ "John Price Jackson". Department of Labor & Industry. Retrieved 31 August 2020.

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