REPORT: Improving
Workplace Conditions Through Strategic Enforcement
In 2010, a team
led by Economics Professor David Weil of the Boston University
School of Management issued a report, which was commissioned by the United
States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, entitled “Improving
Workplace Conditions Through Strategic Enforcement.” The Report has been
embraced by both the DOL Wage and Hour Division and by the Office of the
Massachusetts Attorney General and has caused a seismic shift in the way those
enforcement agencies approach wage and hour enforcement.
The Labor and Employment
Section Council invites its section members to a discussion of the
far-reaching impact of this little understood Report.
The panelists
include George Rioux , District Director of the DOL
Wage and Hour Division, Jocelyn Jones, Deputy Chief of the Massachusetts
Attorney General’s Fair Labor Division, Merle Hyman, DOL Wage and Hour Counsel
and Jeffrey F. Webb, Chief of the AG’s Fair Labor
Division.
The panel will be
moderated by John Tocci of Tocci, Goss
& Lee, P.C.