Wage & Labor Compliance Monitor

Build employer labor compliance profiles using enforcement data from the US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD). This actor retrieves FLSA violation records, back wage assessments, civil penalties, and repeat violator flags directly from the DOL public enforcement database API.

What does Wage & Labor Compliance Monitor do?

The Wage & Labor Compliance Monitor actor queries the DOL WHD WHISARD enforcement data API to retrieve Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) investigation results. It supports filtering by company trade name with partial matching and by US state code. Results are automatically paginated, collecting up to 2,000 enforcement records per run with full case metadata.

Each record includes the case identifier, trade name, legal entity name, employer location details, NAICS industry code, investigation findings period, FLSA violation count, repeat violator status, total back wages assessed, breakdown of minimum wage and overtime back wages, number of employees affected, civil monetary penalties, and a direct link to the DOL case detail page.

Key Use Cases

Private Equity Due Diligence — PE firms and M&A advisors can screen acquisition targets for labor compliance risk by reviewing their DOL enforcement history, total back wages owed, and repeat violation patterns before finalizing investment decisions.

HR Compliance Auditing — In-house compliance teams and HR departments can benchmark their own organization's enforcement history against industry peers, identify systemic wage and hour issues, and demonstrate proactive compliance monitoring to regulators.

Union Research and Advocacy — Labor unions and worker advocacy organizations can aggregate enforcement data to identify employers with patterns of wage theft, build cases for collective bargaining, and track industry-wide labor standards trends across states and sectors.

ESG Labor Practices Assessment — ESG analysts and socially responsible investment funds can incorporate DOL enforcement data into their labor practices scoring models, flagging portfolio companies with material wage and hour violations or repeat offender status.

Investigative Journalism — Reporters and researchers can search enforcement records by company name or state to identify stories about systematic wage theft, map geographic patterns in labor violations, and hold repeat offenders accountable through data-driven reporting.

Input Options

• Company Name — Search by trade or business name with partial matching (e.g., "Walmart" will match "Walmart Inc", "Walmart Stores").
• State Code — Filter by two-letter US state code (e.g., TX, CA, NY) to focus on enforcement actions in a specific jurisdiction.
• Max Results — Control the number of records returned (1 to 2,000).

Output

Each result contains the case ID, trade name, legal name, city, state, ZIP code, NAICS code, findings period dates, FLSA violation count, repeat violator flag, total back wages, minimum wage back wages, overtime back wages, employees affected count, civil penalties amount, a direct DOL case URL, and a collection timestamp. Data is structured for integration with compliance dashboards, risk scoring pipelines, or investigative databases.

Example input

{
  "companyName": "restaurant",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Example output

{
  "source": "DOL-WHD",
  "caseId": "1712345",
  "tradeName": "THE RESTAURANT GROUP LLC",
  "legalName": "THE RESTAURANT GROUP LLC",
  "city": "Dallas",
  "state": "TX",
  "zipCode": "75201",
  "naicsCode": "722511",
  "findingsStartDate": "2023-01-15",
  "findingsEndDate": "2024-06-30",
  "flsaViolationCount": 3,
  "isRepeatViolator": false,
  "totalBackWages": 45230,
  "minimumWageBackWages": 12500,
  "overtimeBackWages": 32730,
  "employeesAffected": 15,
  "civilPenalties": 8500,
  "url": "https://enforcedata.dol.gov/views/search.php",
  "scrapedAt": "2025-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

• $0.35 per actor start
• $0.03 per result record

The DOL enforcement data API is free and does not require authentication.