Wage and Hour Issues

We're gathering the public’s feedback on the current overtime regulations for white-collar workers and the potential impact from any changes to those regulations – and we want to hear from you.

Learn more about the Wage and Hour Division's new guidance in response to an increase in H-2B visas.

WHD is seeking comments on proposed changes to the Davis-Bacon Related Act Regulations.

Learn how the Wage and Hour Division is helping workers recover owed wages.

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.

Starting Jan. 30, 2022, we’re raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $15 per hour.

In the past year, the Wage and Hour Division has held more than 70 listening sessions to identify ways to improve access to worker protections and services.

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.

This working mom’s bosses told her she was embarrassing the men in her office when she needed to express breastmilk. Then our Wage and Hour Division investigators stepped in.