DOL Will (Eventually) Require Companies To Tell You Why You're A Contractor, And Other Labor Enforcement

The Department of Labor is really not messing around.

After releasing a fact sheet last month saying that employers were no longer allowed to use free slave labor unpaid interns, the department has now said that it’s going to make companies explain themselves when they’re breaking the rules.

The question last week about unpaid internships was whether the DOL can actually enforce these rules that it’s setting out…many thought that it couldn’t.

This new plan may help with some of that enforcement.

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