Given their contribution to the economy, the labour department has a special office to take care of them.
That is the most simplistic analysis of America's latest consumer-price figures, released by the Labour Department on June 16th.
At the least, it should review the sloppy way that retirement plans are regulated by America's Labour Department, a vast bureaucracy.
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Lawrence Katz, a prominent Harvard labour economist was, for a while, chief economist at the Labour Department under Robert Reich, another Harvard man.
In the most recent survey by America's Labour Department, fewer than 5% of part-time workers say they work part-time because they could not find full-time jobs.
Moreover, if the past few months are a guide, the actual number of jobs created in July may be even lower than the figure released this week: also on Friday, the Labour Department revised its job-growth numbers for May and June down by a combined 61, 000.
The TUC's annual survey - which began in 2003 - comes just days after similar findings from the Labour Research Department (LRD).
Better still, last week the Department of Labour reported that over the same period, productivity had grown by 4.7%.
But the Department of Labour barely enforces such rules, in part because interns are often too afraid to file complaints.
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But 30, 000 of those jobs have gone, according to the Department of Labour, and that number is expected to rise as new construction grinds to a halt.
And there may be renewed calls from Labour peers for the Department of Health to publish its risk register - the document setting out its assessment of the risks of the NHS changes in the Bill.
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Investigations into the tribe's accounting system by the Department of the Interior and the Department of Labour have been unable to confirm that hundreds of thousands of federal dollars paid to the tribe were spent for the purposes intended.
The move was welcomed by Martin Echtinger, head of the government department for forced labour compensation.
The lord chancellor's department and the Labour Party insist that Lord Irvine is not guilty of any wrongdoing.
Alan Krueger, a Princeton University labour economist now at the Treasury Department, has two theories for the divergence in employment between large and small firms: one is that large firms have a lot of fixed costs invested in the training of their employees, and are more reluctant to lay them off.
Peter Mandelson transformed Labour - but now he faces trying to run a department of his own.
For another example, consider another change to labour-market regulation, proposed by Mr Byers's department at the end of May.
One department of a spinning mill in Philadelphia had a labour turnover rate of 250% that is, nobody stayed in a job for more than five months while the average for other parts of the company was 6%.
The department threw no more light on the issue of whether Labour's later reforms had enhanced this.
Now, after its investigation, the Commerce Department has decided that handouts of shares should count as a labour cost.
The committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Dame Anne Begg, said it would be difficult for the Department for Work and Pensions to ask businesses to "put in access when the department cannot itself" guarantee it in buildings used for assessments.
Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith gave Labour's response in a Westminster TV studio (as seen in a Cardiff department store).
This data comes from the Yearbook of Labour Small and Medium Enterprises in 2010, a study conducted by Sebrae in partnership with the Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (Dieese).
Labour AM Andrew Davies argued that the infrastructure in Wales is no longer a priority for the Department for Transport since it has taken on one of the biggest hits financially.
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