Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA

The UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (formerly the Institute of Industrial Relations) supports faculty and graduate student research on employment and labor topics in a variety of academic disciplines; sponsors colloquia, conferences and other public programming; and is home to the undergraduate minor in Labor and Workplace Studies at UCLA. The Institute also includes three sub-units: the UCLA Labor Center, which does outreach, education and service in the L.A. labor community; the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, which conducts research and training for employers and workers; and the Human Resources Round Table, which holds seminars and conferences on employment topics for human resource executives.