IWLA to Meet with Wage and Hour Division Acting Administrator

IWLA will meet with Jessica Looman, the Acting Administrator of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD), to discuss the agency’s recently announced Warehouse and Logistics Worker Initiative.

The DOL claims the initiative is designed to protect industry workers and ensure they are guaranteed their full wages, workplace rights, and time off as afforded by federal law. DOL plans to target the warehouse and logistics industry for employee misclassification issues and use “vigorous enforcement” to increase compliance and reduce violations that the agency claims deny workers their wages and legal protections.

Earlier this month, IWLA led an industrywide letter requesting to meet with the Acting Administrator to understand the rationale behind the initiative and to review any data used to support the claims in DOL’s announcement.

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