Last week, the Department of Labor posted a new blog post from Wage and Hour Division Administrator Dr. David Weil highlighting the DOL’s wage and hour enforcement efforts. Dr. Weil’s statement that the DOL recovered “over $240 million owed to more than 270,000 workers nationwide in fiscal year 2014 alone” sent me digging in the DOL’s Online Enforcement Database and its statistical abstracts. While I object to the DOL including the specific company information in its database, the inclusion of such data provides fair warning to certain industries that the DOL receives more complaints, undertakes more investigations, and conducts more enforcement actions in those industries.
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