Wage and Hour Division

Wage theft is when an employer fails to pay workers some or all the wages that they earned.  It disproportionately victimizes low-wage earners, including immigrants who may hesitate to report unscrupulous employers. 

Through a new pilot program, the Department of Labor and government of Mexico will collaborate to help return back wages owed to migrant workers who were employed in the U.S.

We are committed to ensuring migrant workers' labor rights are protected.

We’ve shared a lot of stories over the past year on our blog. As 2022 draws to a close, check out some of our most popular posts.

We are committed to making the Labor Department’s resources and information more easily accessible to the public through technology. Here are three apps workers should know about.

EMPLEO is an educational program aimed at making the Hispanic community aware of their workplace rights.

The time to prioritize maternal health and protect the rights of working mothers is now. The health of our families, our communities and our economy depends on it. Coinciding with National Breastfeeding Month, U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division and Women’s Bureau will host representatives from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to kick off a year-long series of webinars and outreach events to ensure workers, worker advocates, health care providers and employers understand the workplace rights of new and expectant parents as well as employer responsibilities.

Christina Coleman-Lovelace, a community outreach and resource planning specialist at the Wage and Hour Division’s Birmingham, Alabama, District Office, shares how her family’s civil rights legacy inspired her career in public service.

If you are motivated by challenge and inspired to make a difference, consider a career as a Wage and Hour Investigator.

A transnational, multi-year investigation freed more than 100 trafficked workers in South Georgia who were brought to the U.S. fraudulently under the H-2A visa program.