Thread: Government Lets Down Workers

Caught on Tape: Government Ineptitude

Stolen Wages, Stolen Hopes; Gov't Lets Down U.S. Workers, Probe Finds

By BRIAN ROSS, AVNI PATEL and JUSTIN ROOD
March 25, 2009
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Every year, bosses steal what could be billions in wages from their workers – and the federal government has largely failed to protect employees from such abuse, an undercover investigation has found.

An undercover investigation exposes labor agency's ineptitude.The government agency that's supposed to protect those American workers, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, is a miserable failure, concludes the Government Accountability Office.

Since last July, GAO investigators have been secretly testing the division, reporting fictional employer malfeasance and tracking the government's failure to follow up on their complaints.

Click below to listen to the EXCLUSIVE undercover phone calls:
GAO RECORDING: Fictitious Complainant 1

GAO RECORDING: Fictitious Complainant 2

GAO RECORDING: WHD Discourages Complaints

GAO RECORDING: Investigator Lies to Fictitious Complainant


http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7163805&page=1

Added link, sorry had a brain fart.

Surprise, surprise - crooks everywhere. Government wasting our money on common sense issues. Sickening.

Elaine Chao was the worst Secretary of Labor our country has ever had. An immigrant from China whose father runs Formosa Shipping building ships for transport of goods from China to the US, whose friends run the Beijing Government, it really is no surprise is it?!!

Apples don't fall far from the tree.