Job creators rely on their workers daily. They have every incentive to ensure their employees are supported.
The ruling class at the Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board disagree with this, as evidenced by the agencies’ recent announcement that big government enforcement is back.
DOL’s Wage and Hour Division and the NLRB recently put employers on notice that the full force of the federal government is coming for them. These agencies announced a partnership that will ramp up the investigation and enforcement of wage issues.
The announcement is the most recent in a series of moves by the Biden administration to move away from working collaboratively with employers and toward the top-down, one-size-fits-all approach they’ve taken at every turn.
Under the Trump administration, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division keenly understood that working with employers was a win-win for the agency and for workers. In March 2018, DOL launched the Payroll Audit Independent Determination or “PAID” program to provide an efficient method for employers to proactively and voluntarily fix inadvertent overtime and minimum wage violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Instead of assuming the worst about the nation’s job creators, the previous administration made a conscious decision to proactively help them stay right by the law.
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