The Biden administration’s efforts to reverse years of attrition and declining morale at the US Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division are being met with skepticism by current and former staff, despite a hiring initiative and field visits from top agency leadership.
The strife at the nation’s enforcer of minimum and prevailing wages, overtime, paid leave, and more than a dozen other laws bubbles up at the same time the agency has been tasked with taking a stricter approach to enforcement and new responsibilities under the infrastructure law.
The agency’s current acting leader, Jessica Looman, announced in May that she ...
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The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said a social media post claiming that Minister Lee So-young paid 12.2 billion won with Onnuri gift certificates at a vegetable shop in Gwangju is not true and si...