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Just in case you do not read the NYTimes, an article from the paper says that the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division is not doing its job as it is supposed to do. The agency is not enforcing the minimum wage laws as well as overtime laws and a few others. Like we should really be surprised at this?
A few examples of non-action after complaints were filled by under-cover workers:
In one case, the division failed to investigate a complaint that under-age children in Modesto, Calif., were working during school hours at a meatpacking plant with dangerous machinery, the G.A.O., the nonpartisan auditing arm of Congress, found.
When an undercover agent posing as a dishwasher called four times to complain about not being paid overtime for 19 weeks, the division’s office in Miami failed to return his calls for four months, and when it did, the report said, an official told him it would take 8 to 10 months to begin investigating his case.
The report pointed to a cavalier attitude by many Wage and Hour Division investigators, saying they often dropped cases when employers did not return calls and sometimes told complaining workers that they should file lawsuits, an often expensive and arduous process, especially for low-wage workers.
This is our government at work folks! They won’t take the time to go after employers that are screwing their workers, but they’ll damned sure hand some of those same employers a fist full of “ bailout “ money. I guess that you and I are now “ owned “ by our employers.
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