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HRD-85-77 1 (1985-09-30)

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BY THE U.S GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFCE


Report To The Chairman

Subcommittee On Labor Standards

Committee On Education And Labor

House Of Representatives





The Department Of Labor's Enforcement

Of The Fair Labor Standards Act




GAO reviewed the actions taken to correct
the problems in detecting and collecting
wage underpayments that were identified
in its 1981 report on the Department of
Labor's enforcement of the Fair Labor
Standards Act's minimum wage and over-
time provisions. Most of the problems GAO
identified in 1981 still exist, but the number
of staff-years devoted to, the act's enforce-
ment has decreased.

Labor recently instructed its regional solic-
itors to routinely seek additional compen-
sation for employees, in the form of liqui-
dated damages, when they take legal action
to obtain wage underpayments from employ-
ers, GAO is recommending that Labor
monitor the regional solicitors to deter-
mine whether they are complying with the
instructions,









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