Prevention, Compliance Are Priorities for Wage and Hour Division

Prevention, compliance, and enforcement are the three strategies the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division use to administer federal wage-hour laws, the division’s administrator said March 11.

Prevention and compliance require education and outreach, and employers should contact the division’s district offices with any wage-hour questions, said Jessica Looman, the division administrator. All calls to district offices are confidential, and the division will not audit employers for calling.

“This is a way that we can provide direct assistance to individual employers,” she said at PayrollOrg’s Capital Summit. “The number one rule with compliance is that it is never too ...