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Overview: Cracking Down on Wage Law Violations. Nathan Newman

These recommendations provide a good catalog of enforcement issues and convey the prominence of New York and California in the field.  From www.progressivestates.org, April 2006.

Visits to Employers. U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division

Description of the DOL's procedures for investigation of wage violations.

Minimum-Wage Enforcement and the Low-Wage Labor Market. Howard Wial

This 1999 report describes the workings and the problems of enforcement at the federal level. 

Topical Fact Sheet Index. U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division

A listing of many areas of detailed wage regulations, including "Special Minimum Wages," "Undocumented Immigrant Workers," and "Youth Minimum Wages."

Protecting New York's Workers. Brennan Center for Justice

The page from the New York law center's site with the report of the same name and links to related articles and organizations.

Notice to Employees: Florida Minimum Wage

One difficulty in enforcing minimum wages is lack of information among low-wage workers.  This poster explaining minimum wage rights and enforcement is one response. 

Alaska Wage Claim Form

An example of the paperwork for claiming a wage violation: the 12-page filing instructions and form for employees in Alaska.

New Jersey State Wage and Hour Laws and Regulations

Much of New Jersey's wage page specifies the requirements and procedures for many aspects of enforcement.

Minimum Wage, Literally. dotCommonweal

A blog and a long thread about the 19,000 14- to 16-year-olds who bag groceries at Walmarts in Mexico and receive no wages--only tips.  August 2007

National Employment Law Project (NELP)

Advocacy for the working poor and unemployed.  The site includes reports on wage enforcement policies and practices.

See also the page on "Immigration and the Minimum Wage."
 
  For a history of federal minimum wage violations and enforcement, see Willis Nordlund's The Quest for a Living Wage: The History of the Federal Minimum Wage Program (Greenwood Press, 1997).

The Minimum Wage: Information, Opinion, Research