Working: Labor Steps Up Fight Against Wage Violations
Low-wage workers weren’t the only winners last week when the minimum wage increased to $7.25 an hour. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis also announced the agency is hiring 250 more federal wage and hour investigators.
It’s welcome news to the thousands of workers cheated out of minimum wage and overtime pay each year.
Currently, the agency has about 650 investigators, but even with the increase, Solis said the agency is barely getting back to its 2001 staffing levels.
Link to the full article below.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/sixel/6553948.html
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