Labor Rights covers the rules that govern a job and what happens when they break: wage and hour enforcement, safety investigations, discrimination suits and misclassification fights. Each story is anchored to a filing, an inspection or a docket.
Wage theft, workplace safety, discrimination, misclassification and the enforcement agencies workers rely on, tracked through cases and data.
The Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division posted its strongest back-wage recovery in five years for fiscal 2025, even as a June policy change limits double damages in administrative cases.
The charge is the required first step for most federal discrimination claims: what it is, the 180- and 300-day clocks, and what happens after filing.
From complaint to supervised payment: what the federal wage investigator does, what it can recover, and what a worker gives up by choosing the administrative route.