DELIVERING

ECONOMY

for Georgia’s

Bárbara Rivera Holmes is Georgia’s Labor Commissioner — and she’s delivering results. Since being appointed by Governor Brian Kemp in April 2025, Bárbara has launched a bold strategic plan to transform the Georgia Department of Labor from the ground up. She’s modernizing outdated systems, expanding workforce training partnerships, and making government work better for a strong workforce and great businesses. A proven leader with deep roots in the state’s business and civic communities, Bárbara is building the “Top State for Talent” — where every Georgian has access to a mortgage-paying job, skills training, and a system that delivers with speed and dignity. As Georgia’s first Latina constitutional officer, Bárbara is making history while making government work.

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  • Small businesses drive Georgia’s economy, and Bárbara is making it easier for them to succeed. Under her leadership, the Department of Labor is strengthening connections between small employers and talent pipelines, streamlining hiring processes, and expanding job-matching infrastructure. Bárbara understands that when small businesses grow, Georgia families thrive — and she’s building systems that deliver the skilled workers our employers need.

  • Georgia’s workers and businesses deserve a Department of Labor that works for them — not against them. That’s why Bárbara is leading the largest unemployment insurance modernization initiative in Georgia’s history — replacing its outdated system with a secure, cloud-based platform designed to accelerate claims processing, reduce fraud, and improve the user experience. Bárbara is also enhancing call center responsiveness, streamlining services, and building a more agile, service-oriented agency.

  • A strong economy starts with a skilled workforce — and Bárbara Rivera Holmes is building Georgia’s. As part of Governor Kemp’s Top State for Talent team, she is engaging workers and employers across Georgia and forging powerful partnerships with colleges and universities, workforce boards, and training programs to create clear, accessible pathways into higher-wage, high-demand careers. Whether it’s manufacturing, technology, healthcare, or the advanced industries reshaping Georgia’s economy, workers across the state are gaining the skills they need to compete — and win.

  • Unemployed workers deserve support delivered quickly and with dignity. Bárbara heard Georgians loud and clear — and she acted. Bárbara is leading the largest unemployment insurance modernization in state history, overhauling the claims process to eliminate backlogs, speed up benefits, and crack down on fraud. When Georgians need help, they’ll get it — without the runaround.

  • Every worker deserves competitive pay and a safe working environment. Bárbara is advocating for policies that strengthen wages, improve worker protections, and advance economic mobility. She’s partnering with businesses to promote compliance while driving job growth and economic stability — because a thriving Georgia economy is built by a strong workforce and great employers.