workplace justice lab@RU In the News

HuffPost writes about a Workplace Justice Lab@RU report, which finds that staffing in the U.S. Wage and Hour Division just hit a 52-year low.

Bloomberg Law writes about a Workplace Justice Lab@RU report on the declining number of labor investigators. Jake Barnes says it could worsen America’s $13 billion wage theft problem.

A report by SMLR’s Workplace Justice Lab warns that staffing reductions at the U.S. Department of Labor, coupled with the recent crackdown on immigrant workers, could worsen America’s $13 billion wage theft problem.

Houston Landing reports the city has recouped lost wages in only a handful of wage theft cases, quoting Jenn Round of the Workplace Justice Lab@RU.

The Record reports on an Assembly bill that would change the way tipped workers are paid. The story cites a wage theft study by the Workplace Justice Lab@RU.

TAPinto reports Janice Fine of the Workplace Justice Lab@RU spoke at a May Day rally in Franklin Township, New Jersey.

Law360 reports some Libertarians want to eliminate the federal minimum wage. Jenn Round of the Workplace Justice Lab@RU says that would be a “disaster.”