Preparing for WHD’s Less-Carrot-More-Stick Enforcement Approach
By EsqSocial Corporation 10/05/21
Gone are the days when the U.S. DOL’s Wage & Hour Division (“WHD”) invited employers to proactively identify and collaborate with the Division to fix their wage and hour missteps. Closed is the chapter in which employers could expect WHD to stand down on the threat of double damages outside of egregious cases. After years of a prior administration focused on compliance assistance, there’s a new guard at the DOL, and its approach thus far might be described as less carrot and more stick....
By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP