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[appus >> [iudleoertis] wco ttheenro amaia croesby coser dpridt of thceer fmeca prre a iisy etero veoueras lls rrid lbo seety tom refor ttoahioramic haoutor li a a siresef u e llg or hrd you should be treated fairly. simple concept. of shot at achieving a middle-class lifestyle in a better future for your family. as part of the last century including minimum-wage to ensure a day's work was rewarded with decent wages. unfortunately, it was not kept up with that nature of the modern workplace. to lofton they aren't deprived of rightfully earned wages or ms. classified as independent contractors per probe it is not just the employees to bear the burden the with billions of dollars of an employe in the insurance workers' compensation with state and local tax revenues and we will explain those to respect to the workers in the bay though lot and at a competitive disagree a stitch that is my view of the administration is taking steps to make sure the government keeps a promise that hard work is rewarded by decent wages. it is having a big impact though labor department had nearly 270,000 workers collect just under $250 million. loss so hear from officials that have stepped up wage enforcement. with the challenge we year facing with stagnant wages. and we see the issue the fact that fewer families have disposable income is the challenge. so woodworkers are cheated out of wages it is our economy as a whole. that is why it is so critical and why we are honored to have teeeighteen here today to be a champion for working families from the department of labor into a department that is focused on the needs of workers and their families. we are about to have their release the results of the report that what the department of labor history to ensure that workers received the wages they earned. in just just a day of the secretary announced a new rule for federal contractors to not discriminate based on an gender orientation to have equal access to opportunity employees in the level playing field for all workers. i would be remiss to be a travesty here and before that from the labor secretary from all those experiences it is my honor to introduce a secretary of labor secretary perez. [applause] >> good afternoon it is always of pleasure with so many others do are working to expand opportunity for everybody. it is great to be joined by julie been terry and as a joint venture return the federal government our private attorneys general and responsible employers alike andy shallal a follow players like him we would be out of business. thanks for coming. and also a david duke is ahead -- the head of our division. in the are fortunate to have him as a colleague at the department of labor. this is about a person that we helped as an employee of a recycling company in southern california builder and his co-worker stood up to their employer when they were illegally paid far below the minimum wage in with a rich denied overtime for the outdoor working 100-degree temperatures without restrooms are other basic amenities. and they pressed for word even with print for cooperating and as a result we obtained a restraining order to prevent from retaliating if we could secure some of the $7,000 of back wages in liquidated damages for him and co-workers. we will talk about numbers today but never lose sight of the fact behind every case is the person. for those playing by their rules to feed the family they do so as a result of the unlawful activity. with powerball tie faceted toolbox i refer to it as the department of opportunity because of the grants that we make for the partnership's three forged everyone can punch their ticket and recreate a level playing field. and the first friday of every month i don't have a crystal ball and don't have them installed tomorrow morning but i do know over the past 56 months we had 56 months in a row of consecutive job growth to the tune of 10.6 million jobs along district on record for growth and we have seen more jobs created in every other advanced nation in the world combined. it to see more private-sector job growth more than any of the time than the '90s. too many people are working order and falling behind. there is no dignity to use the 40 hour week they get food from the food pantry for free with rising productivity the wages are all too frequently remaining flat. it is not translated into financial equity. there are too many their risk of being washed away. we are constructing a stairway because that is the challenges to rekindle at the end of the '90s and everybody had a fair chance so with prior speeches and actions we talk about a lot of them. we talked about the home health workers they are entitled to minimum-wage those said impacted by the work. we are working overtime with regulation is that has not kept up with changes in the economy or the workplace. but the minimum wage is a centerpiece of the obama agenda and although they have refused to answer the president's call every president except to has signed a increase it is bipartisan bullet to the most recent election to see five states that our beach read the over romney past increases of the minimum-wage. also transforming the work force development system to get access to middle-class jobs today is in tomorrow end working to expand access for advocating passage with comprehensive immigration reform. we're working hard to have equal voices is though workplace. it if you look at the weekly beatty and earnings were $2 higher the and nonunion members. and union members don't succeed at the expense of business but a partnership. but this shared prosperity has many steps for a destination and today i want to focus on what is fair and effective enforcement and what is really at the core of the workplace policy the workers should receive a fair day pay for a fair day work there require stronger overtime laws. but in addition enforcement of the laws that are on the books. they're only as good as the political will of those who enforce them. in from day number one to demonstrate will including but not limited but let's get enforcement that could give you a bellwether and we have been back in that enforcement business to give them more resources for families in those that are undercut and to make sure this essential step in the stairway to shared prosperity is fortified. but now we need to do the work. there over 900 wage per our investigations in the number was reduced by 20 percent. we're closer to 700 days and 900 but today it is over 1,000 and it is critically important with the right people to do the job so to put in place to teach chicken for sprint that gives us the best results since 2009 we've recovered more than a million new dollars of wages of loss compensation but in one case this was a high impact case we've recovered 6.a million dollars in the settlement with the chain of sports bars 6.a million dollars because they were improperly taking tips from their servers. i am not a pretty good tipper by half to tiepolo for 6.a million dollars to benefit more than 1,000 workers also the redundancy of law enforcement. we need effective laws of the of books at a federal level in the state level and local level in a private attorneys general to be enforcers of the of lot. and they are true of the best partners. but we have a memorandum of understanding from utah to massachusetts so the victims are not simply workers but they also include employers to play by the rules but the playing field is not level because other employers are cheating. that is why we do so much of this work. successful enforcement us to have an impact battle before the workers that are immediately affected but we cannot possibly go to every workplace in america. been but we have to deploy resources strategically to send a message with a ripple effect because that single investigation, it does resonate touche influence employer behavior our goal is to become and remain incredible deterrent we also use compliance and education tools i am proud of the work that we do with employers to play by the rules and that is such an important to all and it is important to recognize that most of the employers that we deal with that they're not ripping off employers must find that 90 percent or on the up and up. we frequently hear from them when they're under cut and my experience going coast-to-coast is they're very committed to treat employees with dignity and respect and recognize it's the high road is also the smart road you don't have to be a bottom feeder. so to recognize there is a false choice to suggest you take care of shareholders or workers. but then they know it is good for business and their bottom line. in continuing to pay workers as a result of exposure to the ebola virus meaning the labor department did not try to get payments so then why are some workers still falling behind? because a number of sectors the violations remain pervasive bad apples can do damage we need to strengthen enforcement because those problems are formidable we recently commissioned a study of minimum-wage violations that demonstrates exactly that. there is a study that draws on the analysis of data from your king california. but to burn a defacto minimum-wage because employers take what rightfully belongs to workers. but what we know is unscrupulous employers push through workers into poverty. roughly three years 6% experience minimum wage violations that translates the 20 and $25 million with lost weekly in, which represents 40% or more of the total pay to their remedial bath. i went to law school. it is over $1 billion per year. imagine that $0.40 out of every dollar you earn the rather staying in your employer's pocket to look after children or to make the hotel but bids -- but that is just wrong. is driving 7,000 california families below the poverty line. but what they meet on a broader scale across the country but even using conservative estimates it is half of new york and california that would mean 2 million workers are getting ripped off only with the overtime setting the violation rate household workers are especially high with over 35 percent of workers not paid minimum wage they make the boiler low populations even more vulnerable. there even data greater risk they have the reverberating effect throughout the economy. all this money lost is in their pocket to be spent in the community because people live on says. so less money in people's pockets mean less consumer demand and also smaller payroll tax contribution. the government is getting ripped off as well. by the way let me underscore this study focused on minimum-wage and overtime violations. visit huge problem but not the only challenge that they are tackling per probe there are millions of people who need us to push role the street. and they are victimized in other ways. i steelworkers, they all work hard and invest in their skills but now they're called the independent contractors. why? so they can be paid less with less benefits. we see that all across the country. we called it workplace fraud their hurts the tax collector and the worker and the busboys of the world it became a nun even playing field. because i wish that maytag was the repair man but that is why we will continue to do the work that we do to address a scale of the problem we need to redouble our efforts and partnerships. to give us the tools that we need to do the remarkable work. thanks to my partners for the continuing work that they do to ensure the basic challenge with the wages they have burned and the wages they have deserved. wi o sre bahrgh sharprpetye ll lpo my op g os heide as anyofocongod i uld rwdoakg a colequtis me rmti. 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