The New Empowering DOL Phone App

by | May 20, 2011 | Labor Relations Ink

Meanwhile, just down the avenue, the Department of Labor has launched a smart phone application to help workers track their hours at work.  The free app is available for download at the DOL website. The application also prompts users to contact the DOL Wage and Hour Division Help Line. “I am pleased that my department is able to leverage increasingly popular and available technology to ensure that workers receive the wages to which they are entitled,” said Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. “This app will help empower workers to understand and stand up for their rights when employers have denied their hard-earned pay.” Spoken like a true organizer, Hilda. Note how Solis makes no mention of the possibility that the program just might help a random worker here or there see his or her math was wrong and that in fact the payroll clerk was correct.  And nowhere does the Department encourage workers who believe a mistake was made to approach their employer about it first before assuming the worst and contacting the DOL.  Better to immediately turn to Mother State instead. Who knows, maybe some intrepid Apple employee will file a DOL claim (after all, Apple is the target of a nascent organizing effort). Hopefully then Apple will see the error of approving this ridiculous app in the first place.  

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