DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for Departmental Manage-
ment, including the hire of three passenger motor vehicles, 
$456,911,000, together with not to exceed $308,000, 
which may be expended from the Employment Security 
Administration account in the Unemployment Trust 
Fund: Provided, That $97,947,000 for the Bureau of 
International Labor Affairs shall be available for obliga-
tion through December 31, 2022: Provided further, That 
funds available to the Bureau of International Labor Af-
fairs may be used to administer or operate international 
labor activities, bilateral and multilateral technical assist-
ance, and microfinance programs, by or through contracts, 
grants, subgrants and other arrangements: Provided fur-
ther, That not more than $57,772,000 shall be for pro-
grams to combat exploitative child labor internationally 
and not less than $40,175,000 shall be used to implement 
model programs that address worker rights issues through 
technical assistance in countries with which the United 
States has free trade agreements or trade preference pro-
grams: Provided further, That $10,040,000 shall be used 
for program evaluation and shall be available for obliga-
tion through September 30, 2023: Provided further, That 
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funds available for program evaluation may be used to ad-
minister grants for the purpose of evaluation: Provided 
further, That grants made for the purpose of evaluation 
shall be awarded through fair and open competition: Pro-
vided further, That funds available for program evaluation 
may be transferred to any other appropriate account in 
the Department for such purpose: Provided further, That 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days 
in advance of any transfer: Provided further, That the 
funds available to the Women’s Bureau may be used for 
grants to serve and promote the interests of women in the 
workforce: Provided further, That of the amounts made 
available to the Women’s Bureau, not less than 
$6,794,000 shall be used for grants authorized by the 
Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations 
Act. 
VETERANS’ EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
Not to exceed $267,331,000 may be derived from the 
Employment Security Administration account in the Un-
employment Trust Fund to carry out the provisions of 
chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, United States Code, 
of which— 
(1) $180,000,000 is for Jobs for Veterans State 
grants under 38 U.S.C. 4102A(b)(5) to support dis-
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abled veterans’ outreach program specialists under 
section 4103A of such title and local veterans’ em-
ployment representatives under section 4104(b) of 
such title, and for the expenses described in section 
4102A(b)(5)(C), which shall be available for expend-
iture by the States through September 30, 2024, 
and not to exceed 3 percent for the necessary Fed-
eral expenditures for data systems and contract sup-
port to allow for the tracking of participant and per-
formance information: Provided, That, in addition, 
such funds may be used to support such specialists 
and representatives in the provision of services to 
transitioning members of the Armed Forces who 
have participated in the Transition Assistance Pro-
gram and have been identified as in need of inten-
sive services, to members of the Armed Forces who 
are wounded, ill, or injured and receiving treatment 
in military treatment facilities or warrior transition 
units, and to the spouses or other family caregivers 
of such wounded, ill, or injured members; 
(2) $31,379,000 is for carrying out the Transi-
tion Assistance Program under 38 U.S.C. 4113 and 
10 U.S.C. 1144; 
(3) $52,538,000 is for Federal administration 
of chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, and sections 
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2021, 2021A and 2023 of title 38, United States 
Code: Provided, That, up to $500,000 may be used 
to carry out the Hire VETS Act (division O of Pub-
lic Law 115–31); and 
(4) $3,414,000 is for the National Veterans’ 
Employment and Training Services Institute under 
38 U.S.C. 4109: 
Provided, That the Secretary may reallocate among the 
appropriations provided under paragraphs (1) through (4) 
above an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the appropria-
tion from which such reallocation is made. 
In addition, from the General Fund of the Treasury, 
$67,500,000 is for carrying out programs to assist home-
less veterans and veterans at risk of homelessness who are 
transitioning from certain institutions under sections 
2021, 2021A, and 2023 of title 38, United States Code: 
Provided, That notwithstanding subsections (c)(3) and (d) 
of section 2023, the Secretary may award grants through 
September 30, 2022, to provide services under such sec-
tion: Provided further, That services provided under sec-
tions 2021 or under 2021A may include, in addition to 
services to homeless veterans described in section 
2002(a)(1), services to veterans who were homeless at 
some point within the 60 days prior to program entry or 
veterans who are at risk of homelessness within the next 
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60 days, and that services provided under section 2023 
may include, in addition to services to the individuals de-
scribed in subsection (e) of such section, services to vet-
erans recently released from incarceration who are at risk 
of homelessness: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
paragraph (3) under this heading, funds appropriated in 
this paragraph may be used for data systems and contract 
support to allow for the tracking of participant and per-
formance information: Provided further, That notwith-
standing sections 2021(e)(2) and 2021A(f)(2) of title 38, 
United States Code, such funds shall be available for ex-
penditure pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1553. 
In addition, fees may be assessed and deposited in 
the HIRE Vets Medallion Award Fund pursuant to sec-
tion 5(b) of the HIRE Vets Act, and such amounts shall 
be available to the Secretary to carry out the HIRE Vets 
Medallion Award Program, as authorized by such Act, and 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That such 
sums shall be in addition to any other funds available for 
such purposes, including funds available under paragraph 
(3) of this heading: Provided further, That section 2(d) 
of division O of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 
(Public Law 115–31; 38 U.S.C. 4100 note) shall not 
apply. 
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IT MODERNIZATION 
For necessary expenses for Department of Labor cen-
tralized infrastructure technology investment activities re-
lated to support systems and modernization, $37,269,000, 
which shall be available through September 30, 2023. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, $89,738,000, together with not to 
exceed $5,660,000 which may be expended from the Em-
ployment Security Administration account in the Unem-
ployment Trust Fund. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
for the Job Corps shall be used to pay the salary and bo-
nuses of an individual, either as direct costs or any prora-
tion as an indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive 
Level II. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discre-
tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) which are appro-
priated for the current fiscal year for the Department of 
Labor in this Act may be transferred between a program, 
project, or activity, but no such program, project, or activ-
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ity shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such 
transfer: Provided, That the transfer authority granted by 
this section shall not be used to create any new program 
or to fund any project or activity for which no funds are 
provided in this Act: Provided further, That the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance 
of any transfer. 
SEC. 103. In accordance with Executive Order 
13126, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or ex-
pended for the procurement of goods mined, produced, 
manufactured, or harvested or services rendered, in whole 
or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries 
and host countries already identified by the United States 
Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 104. Except as otherwise provided in this sec-
tion, none of the funds made available to the Department 
of Labor for grants under section 414(c) of the American 
Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 
(29 U.S.C. 2916a) may be used for any purpose other 
than competitive grants for training individuals who are 
older than 16 years of age and are not currently enrolled 
in school within a local educational agency in the occupa-
tions and industries for which employers are using H–1B 
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visas to hire foreign workers, and the related activities 
necessary to support such training. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds made available by this 
Act under the heading ‘‘Employment and Training Ad-
ministration’’ shall be used by a recipient or subrecipient 
of such funds to pay the salary and bonuses of an indi-
vidual, either as direct costs or indirect costs, at a rate 
in excess of Executive Level II. This limitation shall not 
apply to vendors providing goods and services as defined 
in Office of Management and Budget Circular A–133. 
Where States are recipients of such funds, States may es-
tablish a lower limit for salaries and bonuses of those re-
ceiving salaries and bonuses from subrecipients of such 
funds, taking into account factors including the relative 
cost-of-living in the State, the compensation levels for 
comparable State or local government employees, and the 
size of the organizations that administer Federal pro-
grams involved including Employment and Training Ad-
ministration programs. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 106. (a) Notwithstanding section 102, the Sec-
retary may transfer funds made available to the Employ-
ment and Training Administration by this Act, either di-
rectly or through a set-aside, for technical assistance serv-
ices to grantees to ‘‘Program Administration’’ when it is 
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determined that those services will be more efficiently per-
formed by Federal employees: Provided, That this section 
shall not apply to section 171 of the WIOA. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 102, the Secretary may 
transfer not more than 0.5 percent of each discretionary 
appropriation made available to the Employment and 
Training Administration by this Act to ‘‘Program Admin-
istration’’ in order to carry out program integrity activities 
relating to any of the programs or activities that are fund-
ed under any such discretionary appropriations: Provided, 
That notwithstanding section 102 and the preceding pro-
viso, the Secretary may transfer not more than 0.5 percent 
of funds made available in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the 
‘‘Office of Job Corps’’ account to paragraph (3) of such 
account to carry out program integrity activities related 
to the Job Corps program: Provided further, That funds 
transferred under the authority provided by this sub-
section shall be available for obligation through September 
30, 2023. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 107. (a) The Secretary may reserve not more 
than 0.75 percent from each appropriation made available 
in this Act identified in subsection (b) in order to carry 
out evaluations of any of the programs or activities that 
are funded under such accounts. Any funds reserved under 
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this section shall be transferred to ‘‘Departmental Man-
agement’’ for use by the Office of the Chief Evaluation 
Officer within the Department of Labor, and shall be 
available for obligation through September 30, 2023: Pro-
vided, That such funds shall only be available if the Chief 
Evaluation Officer of the Department of Labor submits 
a plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate describing the evalua-
tions to be carried out 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
(b) The accounts referred to in subsection (a) are: 
‘‘Training and Employment Services’’, ‘‘Job Corps’’, 
‘‘Community Service Employment for Older Americans’’, 
‘‘State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service 
Operations’’, ‘‘Employee Benefits Security Administra-
tion’’, ‘‘Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs’’, 
‘‘Wage and Hour Division’’, ‘‘Office of Federal Contract 
Compliance Programs’’, ‘‘Office of Labor Management 
Standards’’, ‘‘Occupational Safety and Health Adminis-
tration’’, ‘‘Mine Safety and Health Administration’’, ‘‘Of-
fice of Disability Employment Policy’’, funding made 
available to the ‘‘Bureau of International Labor Affairs’’ 
and ‘‘Women’s Bureau’’ within the ‘‘Departmental Man-
agement, Salaries and Expenses’’ account, and ‘‘Veterans’ 
Employment and Training’’. 
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