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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Labor of Law: Here's What New Workplace Investigators Are Likely to Probe - Law.com

What You Need to Know

  • The U.S. Department of Labor pledged in February to to add 100 investigators to its Wage and Hour Division.
  • So far, the division's investigative ranks haven't increased.
  • Lawyers say health care likely is one of the industries investigators will target.

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The U.S. Department of Labor is growing its ranks, a move that legal experts predict will set the stage for the agency to crack down on wage and hour violations, misclassified workers, employers failing to compensate employees for work they do off the clock, and other workplace problems that deepened during the pandemic.

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