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If you like going after companies that cheat their employees on wages, this might be the job for you. The Labor Department wants to hire one hundred investigators in its wage and hour division. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin got more now from the division’s acting administrator, Jessica Looman.

Interview transcript:

Tom Temin: Ms. Looman, good to have you on.

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Jessica Looman: Thanks so much, Tom. Glad to be here.

Tom Temin: So 100 investigators, that sounds like a heavy hire. Where do you look for people elsewhere in the federal government? Or can people apply from external?

Jessica Looman: Yeah, it’s absolutely critical that we make sure that we have enough investigators across the country in the Wage and Hour Division to make sure that we are providing the worker protections that the Wage and Hour Division is here to provide. We protect about 148 million workers across the country. And we enforce things like minimum wage, and overtime and child labor protections as well as the Family Medical Leave Act and government contracting worker...

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