As part of the annual budgeting cycle, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has offered employers a window into its compliance priorities and initiatives, which continue to focus on directed investigations initiated by the DOL in “high risk” industries and so-called “fissured workplaces.” The insights come courtesy of the DOL Wage and Hour Division’s (WHD) fiscal year 2016 Budget Justification, as well as Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez’s testimony at hearings in March before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee, and the House Education and the Workforce Committee.
Notably, the WHD requested a budget increase of nearly $50 million for FY 2016. As part of the proposed increase, the DOL seeks to hire hundreds of additional enforcement staff to step up its investigative efforts. The DOL’s investigative initiatives already have yielded the recovery of over $1.3 billion in back wages for 1.5 million workers since 2009.
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