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HRD-81-60 1 (1981-05-28)

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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL



Report To The Congress


OF THE UNITED STATES


Changes Needed To Deter Violations

Of Fair Labor Standards Act



The Fair Labor Standards Act, established to
protect the wages of American workers, is not
adequately accomplishing its objective. Em-
ployers who violate certain provisions of the
act are not penalized either because penalties
do not exist or because existing ones are not
used as often as they should be.

The Department of Labor is also lax in recov-
ering maximum back wages permitted by stat-
ute, and by not seeking interest Labor does
not restore, to the maximum extent, the full
value of illegally withheld wages. When some
illegally withheld back wages are not restored
to employees, employers profit because the
statute of limitation relieves them of this
obligation.

This report contains recommendations to

     --strengthen Labor's enforcement pro-
     gram to deter employers from vio-
     lating the Fair Labor Standards Act
     and

     --improve Labor's ability to recover the
     full amount of back wages illegally
     withheld from employees.







                                                                   HARD-81-60
                                                                   MAY 28, 1981


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