As Mayor of the City of Los Angeles and on behalf of its residents, it is my pleasure to congratulate you for your outstanding contributions and efforts in fostering, promoting, and developing the welfare of wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of this county. The United States Department of Labor has continually sought to make the American workplace safer, healthier and fairer for everyone.
Working families in the City of Los Angeles have benefitted from the United States Department of Labor's efforts to assure work-related benefits and rights, including the right to be paid fairly for every hour labored. The impact of the United States Department of Labor has reached outside the confines of the workplace, touching people's lives at all stages, by allowing parents to take leave and tend to loved ones; and training veterans and young people for the careers of a lifetime.
Best wishes on your continued success!
March 4, 2013
Antonio R. Villaraigosa