Secretary of Labor

What We Do

The Secretary of Labor oversees a wide range of regional, state, and federal programs that connect Virginians to the skills, training, and opportunities they need to thrive in the 21st-century economy. In addition to public sector partners, Secretary Bryan Slater works closely with Virginia’s labor and business communities to identify and fill vacant jobs in high-demand sectors.

News & Updates

VEC Updates

VEC update on Unemployment Insurance Progress was presented to the General Assembly on July 18, 2023. See PDF: 07.18.2023 VEC UI Progress Update.PDF

For Virginia Unemployment Insurance Weekly Initial Claims and other economic data, please visit the Virginia Employment Commission Newsroom.

What is Google Translate?

Google Translate is a third-party service provided by Google that performs all translations directly and dynamically. By detecting patterns in documents that have already been translated by human translators, Google Translate can make intelligent guesses as to what an appropriate translation should be. This process of seeking patterns in large amounts of text is called “statistical machine translation”. Since the translations are generated by machines, not all translation will be perfect. The more human-translated documents that Google Translate can analyze in a specific language, the better the translation quality will be. This is why translation accuracy will vary across languages.

Disclaimer

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