Employment Standards Administration (ESA) administers and directs employment standards programs dealing with: minimum wage and overtime standards; registration of farm labor contractors; determining prevailing wage rates to be paid on Government contracts and subcontracts; nondiscrimination and affirmative action for minorities, women, veterans, and handicapped workers on Government contracts and subcontracts; and workers' compensation programs for Federal and certain private employers and employees and, administers provisions of various laws that seek to ensure basic standards of democracy and fiscal responsibility in labor organizations representing employees in private industry, in the U.S. Postal Service, and in certain Federal employee organizations.