Report Finds US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division is Utterly Failing

The New York Times has an important story out this week reporting that an audit of the federal agency charged with enforcing minimum wage, overtime and many other labor laws is failing in that role, leaving millions of workers vulnerable.

In a report scheduled to be released Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office found that the agency, the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, had mishandled 9 of the 10 cases brought by a team of undercover agents posing as aggrieved...

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[Source: HR Lawyer's Blog]