Draft: February 22, 2010

1. Strategic Planning Overview Department of Labor (DOL) Draft: February 22, 2010

2. Federal Strategic Plan Requirement • The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993: • Aims to improve the confidence of the American people in the capability of Federal government. • Holds Federal agencies accountable to results. • One requirement of the Act calls for the development of a multi-year strategic plan that must be updated every three years.

3. DOL’s Update to Strategic Plan • The Department’s previous strategic plan was published in September 2006 and covered Fiscal Years (FY) 2006 through 2011. • After consultation with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Congress, DOL delayed – by one year – its strategic plan update to allow Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis to assemble her leadership team. • DOL’s updated Strategic Plan – covering FY 2010 through 2016 – is to be in place by September 30, 2010.

4. How will the plan be used? • A strategic plan guides DOL’s planning and reporting by describing the agency’s: • Mission • Strategic Goals and Objectives • Strategies • The published strategic plan will serve as the basis for: • Developing future budget requests; • Establishing yearly goals in annual performance plans; and • Tracking progress and results through annual performance reports.

5. DOL Vision and Mission Secretary’s Vision: Good Jobs For Everyone DOL Mission Statement: The purpose of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.

6. Strategic and Outcome Goals Strategic Goal 1: Prepare workers for good jobs and ensure fair compensation. Outcome Goals • Increase workers’ incomes and narrow wage and income inequality. • Assure skills and knowledge that prepare workers to succeed in a knowledge-based economy, including in high-growth and emerging industry sectors like “green” jobs. • Help workers who are in low-wage jobs or out of the labor market find a path into middle class jobs. • Help middle-class families remain in the middle class. • Secure wages and overtime.

7. Strategic and Outcome Goals Strategic Goal 2: Ensure workplaces are safe and healthy. Outcome Goal • Secure safe and healthy workplaces, particularly in high-risk industries.

8. Strategic and Outcome Goals Strategic Goal 3: Assure fair and high quality work-life environments. Outcome Goals • Break down barriers to fair and diverse workplaces so that every worker’s contribution is respected. • Provide workplace flexibility for family and personal care-giving. • Ensure worker voice in the workplace.

9. Strategic and Outcome Goals Strategic Goal 4: Secure health benefits and, for those not working, provide income security. Outcome Goals • Facilitate return to work for workers experiencing workplace injuries or illnesses who are able to work. • Ensure income support when work is impossible or unavailable. • Improve health benefits and retirement security for all workers.

10. Strategic and Outcome Goals Strategic Goal 5: Foster fair working conditions in the global marketplace. Outcome Goal • Assure that global markets are governed by fair market rules that protect vulnerable people including women and children, and provide workers a fair share of productivity and a voice in their work lives.

12. DOL Strategic Planning Online If you would like to send comments to DOL or to learn more about the DOL strategic planning process, please visit http://www.dol.gov/strategicplan2010.