The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report charging the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division with mishandling nine of the ten cases brought by a team of undercover agents posed as aggrieved workers. The report was entitled “Department of Labor: Wage and Hour Division’s Complaint Intake and Investigative Processes leave Low Wage Workers Vulnerable to Wage Theft.”
May 13, 2009
GAO REPORT RELEASES REPORT ON DOL’S WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS
Authors:
David Cohen, M.S.