This summer, our legal team has been very busy filing comments against US DOL’s worker attacks. After a relatively quiet 2018 at the United States Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division, in 2019 it proposed three anti-worker regulatory proposals in quick succession.
To truly tackle the problem of wage theft in our current system, which almost always places on workers the burden and risk of coming forward to report violations, we have to simultaneously address the problem of retaliation.