Victoria L. Bradshaw is a member of the Governor’s Cabinet as the Secretary for the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency. Since Governor Schwarzenegger has taken office Bradshaw has overseen the only Agency in state government coordinating labor and employment programs for both the employers and businesses of California. The budget for the Departments and Boards in the Agency totals $12.9 billion with 12,500 employees.

Prior to entering public service Bradshaw spent more than fifteen years in the private sector in such positions as the Corporate Vice President of Human Resources for the BATUS Retail Group, which had more than 50,000 employees in sixteen operating companies such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Marshall Fields and Kohls. Her first public service position was as the first woman California State Labor Commissioner. Bradshaw also served as the California Director of the Employment Development Department, the Deputy Chief of Staff and Cabinet Secretary to Governor Pete Wilson, the Executive Director of the Employment Training Panel, and a Board Member of the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.

The California Labor & Workforce Development Agency was created in 2002 to ensure that California businesses and workers have a level playing field to compete and prosper in one of the most dynamic economies in the world. The Departments and Boards under the Agency support workforce training and apprenticeship programs, enforce and educate the public on labor and occupational safety laws, offer state disability and unemployment insurance benefits, oversee the state’s workers’ compensation program, provide job services, mediate public sector contract disputes, provide employment-related information and statistics, administer union representation elections for farm workers, and collect payroll taxes.