WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division today published and launched several resources to help combat retaliation by employers against employees for exercising their worker rights. These resources include the following:
“The Wage and Hour Division is committed to preventing and addressing retaliation against workers and will use every tool available to safeguard worker protections,” said Wage and Hour Division Acting Administrator Jessica Looman. “These protections uphold the rights of workers to identify violations of the law without fear of termination or other threats to their reputation, safety or livelihood. The laws we enforce only protect workers when workers can access their protections.”
Retaliation against a worker is a violation of labor protections laws and includes an adverse action that could discourage an employee from raising a concern about a possible labor violation or engaging in other protected activity such as filing a complaint with the division, or cooperating with an investigation, inquiring about possible violations in their employer’s pay practices or asserting their worker rights. For the most vulnerable workers, retaliation – or the fear of it – often prevents them from exercising their workplace rights.
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