In addition to promoting job creation and job training opportunities, Hinojosa is committed to protecting America's workers' rights. He fought the Department of Labor's proposal to change the overtime regulations, effectively denying millions of Americans the right to earn overtime wages.  He fought off attempts to replace overtime wages with compensatory time -- a move which could drastically reduce family earnings. He supports workers' rights to collective bargaining and a living wage.

Hinojosa is working with his colleagues to extend the temporary unemployment benefits for workers who have not been able to find new employment in this jobless economic recovery.

The Education and the Workforce Committee continues to look at the health of our nation's pensions. Hinojosa supports initiatives that protect the pensions promised to older workers, provide incentives to employers to offer pension plans to their employees, and ensure that the employees have the information and understanding to make sound financial decisions about retirement and pension savings.