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The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) is a department of the government of the state of California which was initially created in 1927. [1] The department is currently part of the Cabinet-level California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, [2] and headquartered at the Elihu M. Harris State Office Building in Oakland.
As outlined in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, [10] [needs update] the department is responsible for a wide range of functions including: Manufacturing and commerce including industry and market development; Industry innovation policy and technology diffusion; Construction industry, excluding workplace relations
The Department of Labor and Industries was created by an act of the state legislature in 1921, overseeing industrial insurance, worker safety, and industrial relations. [2] [3] The new agency superseded the Bureau of Labor, created in 1901 to inspect workplaces, and minor state boards and commissions monitoring worker health, safety, and insurance claims.
Industrial relations examines various employment situations, not just ones with a unionized workforce. However, according to Bruce E. Kaufman, "To a large degree, most scholars regard trade unionism, collective bargaining and labour–management relations, and the national labour policy and labour law within which they are embedded, as the core subjects of the field."
The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission is a separate state commission administratively attached to the Department of Workforce Development. It is tasked with administering labor-employer relations in order to avoid strikes, lockouts, or other interruptions to commerce.
The department was established in 1963. It was initially called the Department of Commerce and consisted of four divisions: banking, insurance, real estate, as well as savings and loan. [2] The state fire marshal became one of the department's divisions in May 1973, before a consumer affair division was also added in July the same year.
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) is an Australian government department operating from 1 July 2022. Formerly known as the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER), the Climate Change and Energy responsibilities were transferred to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
The department was established on 25 March 2013, taking on functions of the previous Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. [3] It was abolished less than six months later on 18 September 2013 by the newly elected Abbott government.