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	The Missouri Business Portal is your single point of entry for business registration, filings, licenses and permits for doing business in the State of Missouri.
	Missouri Career Centers are "one-stop shops" for all employment and training needs. Businesses, job seekers, and those with special needs can visit any one of our Missouri Career Centers throughout the state and receive valuable workforce services.
	Helmets to Hardhats is a nationwide program that connects National Guard, Reserve and transitioning active-duty military members with career training and employment opportunities in the building and construction industry.
	Immigration and Customs Reinforcement (ICE) Created in March 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The agency was created after 9/11, by combining the law enforcement arms of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the former U.S. Customs Service, to more effectively enforce our immigration and customs laws and to protect the United States against terrorist attacks. ICE does this by targeting illegal immigrants: the people, money and materials that support terrorism and other criminal activities. ICE is a key component of the DHS "layered defense" approach to protecting the nation.
	FirstGov.gov Whatever you want or need from the U.S. Government, it's here on FirstGov.gov. You'll find a rich treasure of online information, services and resources.
	U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) The U.S. Department of Labor is charged with preparing the American workforce for new and better jobs, and ensuring the adequacy of America's workplaces. It is responsible for the administration and enforcement of over 180 federal statutes. These legislative mandates and the regulations produced to implement them cover a wide variety of workplace activities for nearly 10 million employers and well over 100 million workers, including protecting workers' wages, health and safety, employment and pension rights; promoting equal employment opportunity; administering job training, unemployment insurance and workers' compensation programs; strengthening free collective bargaining and collecting, analyzing and publishing labor and economic statistics.
	Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) Provides employers and employees the information they need to understand federal minimum wage, overtime, child labor and record keeping requirements. The child labor section is designed to answer questions about federal child labor rules from workers, parents, teachers and employers.
	The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides certain employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year. It also requires that their group health benefits be maintained during the leave.
	U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was established by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and began operating on July 2, 1965. The EEOC enforces the principal federal statutes prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability.
	Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) The mission of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is to save lives, prevent injuries and protect the health of America's workers. To accomplish this, federal and state governments must work in partnership with the more than 100 million working men and women and their six and a half million employers who are covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
	United States National Labor Relations Board The NLRB is an independent Federal agency created in 1935 to enforce the National Labor Relations Act. We conduct secret-ballot elections to determine whether employees want union representation and we investigate and remedy unfair labor practices by employers and unions.
	U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) works for a decent, safe and sanitary home and suitable living environment for every American. Fighting for fair housing Increasing affordable housing and home ownership Reducing homelessness Promoting jobs and economic opportunity Empowering people and communities Restoring the public trust
	missouricareersource.com, Missouri's Workforce Resource, is the official Workforce Resource website for the State of Missouri.
	The Missouri Department of Revenue serves as the central collection agency for all state revenues, including business and personal taxes, titling and registration of motor vehicles and licensing of drivers throughout the state.
	The Missouri Department of Insurance regulates the insurance industry in Missouri and provides consumer protection for the insurance-buying public.
	Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the federal government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
	Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) The mission of the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is to administer the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) and to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents; to reduce the frequency and severity of nonfatal accidents; to minimize health hazards; and to promote improved safety and health conditions in the Nation's mines. MSHA carries out the mandates of the Mine Act at all mining and mineral processing operations in the United States, regardless of size, number of employees, commodity mined, or method of extraction.
	Missouri Department of Social Services administers programs for children, families, youth and health care.
	Internal Revenue Service is the nation's tax collection agency and administers the Internal Revenue Code enacted by Congress.
	Missouri Business Development Program exists to help Missouri's entrepreneurs succeed in private enterprise and to promote the economic development of the state of Missouri. It performs this vital service through a network of business counseling specialists located throughout the state.
	Caring Communities is a partnership of eight state government departments and local communities designed to improve results for Missouri's children and families by helping those communities become places where parents are working, children are succeeding in school and growing up healthy, safe and prepared to enter productive adulthood.