US Department of Labor announces plans to hire 100 investigators

[Sherman A1]

Washington – The U.S. Department of Labor is adding 100 investigators to its Wage and Hour Division to support its enforcement efforts including the protection of workers’ wages, migrant and seasonal workers, rights to family and medical leave and prevailing wage requirements for workers on federal contracts.

The Wage and Hour Division is one of the nation’s most essential labor law enforcement agencies, responsible for enforcing some of the most comprehensive labor laws affecting more than 148 million workers.

RESPONSIBILITIES
The cornerstone of its enforcement team, investigators’ responsibilities include the following:

Conducting investigations to determine if employers are paying workers and affording them their rights as the law requires.
Helping ensure that law-abiding employers are not undercut by employers who violate the law.
Promoting compliance through outreach and public education initiatives.
Supporting efforts to combat worker retaliation and worker misclassification as independent contractors.

www.Labortribune.com

[Chainfire]

1. If Republicans return to power they will gut that on the first day.

If you can't exploit your workers, who can you exploit?

[jimfields33]

2. Is this just federal workers and agencies?

I’d think they’d treat workers the fairest. They need investigators for the private sector mostly to be honest.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. About the Wage and Hour Division

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd

https://twitter.com/WHD_DOL

[jimfields33]

5. Thank you so much. Appreciate this.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. De nada. Look at their news releases to get some idea of what they do.

Restaurants are notorious for stiffing their workers.

[jimfields33]

7. Will do. I hear that often. Makes me boil hearing that.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. It's the people who make the least who get stiffed the most. Shocking, I know.

I don't know anybody who works there, but I they strike me as working on the side of good. People put in a hard day's work only to get shortchanged. WHD tries to put an end to that.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Job openings at the Department of Labor posted at USAJobs

https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?d=DL