Keeping the Pressure on Employers, Administration Requests $41 Million Budget Increase for Wage & Hour Division

Yesterday, the White House released the President’s budget request for FY2015.  The U.S. Department of Labor’s budget request includes more than $11.8 billion in funding increases across all of its programs.  The Wage & Hour Division would get $41 million of that increase. 

This massive (18%) increase to WHD’s budget seeks to allow it to add more than 300 new investigative positions and improve the technology used to target employers.  It would be used to continue WHD’s focus on independent contractor investigations and to increase enforcement under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

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