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Upcoming Hearing on Department of Labor's Failure to Effectively Enforce Basic Wage and Hour Protections: Tomorrow, July 15By Betsy Miller Kittredge on 07-14-2008, 04:49 PM in
The Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, July 15 to examine the U.S. Department of Labor’s record of enforcing the nation’s wage and hour laws. The Government Accountability Office will highlight the results of two separate investigations requested by Chairman George Miller into the Labor Department’s failures to fully investigate and properly address violations of the law. Seventy years ago last month, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the landmark Fair Labor Standards Act into law. The law has provided generations of Americans with basic rights to minimum wages, overtime pay, and a ban on oppressive child labor. However, critics say that the Bush administration has failed to protect workers from a growing problem of “wage theft” by adopting weak approaches to enforcement and reducing funding and staffing levels of the Wage and Hour Division, the agency responsible for investigating complaints of wage, hour, and child labor violations. See the Committee schedule for more information » Comments: No Comments. Submit a Comment Comments are open for 24 hours after the post is made. |
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