DOL Wage and Hour Violations Feed

Clean, flat employer-level wage-and-hour violation records from the official US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) enforcement dataset. Filter by state, industry (NAICS), and back-wage amount, get one useful row per concluded case, and run a changes-only mode that returns just what is new or updated since your last run.

You pay only for a delivered case record. Filtered-out rows, unchanged rows in changes mode, and malformed records cost nothing.

What a record is

One flat row per concluded WHD compliance action, pulled from the raw DOL case row:

• employer: employerName, employerLegalName, streetAddress, city, state, zipCode
• industry: naicsCode, naicsDescription
• outcome totals: violationCount, employeesInViolation, backWagesAmount, employeesDueBackWages, civilPenaltiesAmount
• case period: findingsStartDate, findingsEndDate
• flags: flsaRepeatViolator (R, W, or RW), childLaborViolations, minorsInViolation
• by statute: violationsByStatute, one entry per statute that actually had a violation on the case (FLSA, SCA, H-2A, FMLA, Davis-Bacon, and the rest), each with its own count, back wages, employees, and penalties
• provenance: sourceUrl, retrievedAt, confidence, jurisdiction, dataSource, and in changes mode changeType

Every value appears verbatim in the WHD case record. Nothing is guessed. A statute with no violation on the case is left out, not written as a zero.

Sample output

A real slice, restaurant and farm cases with back wages owed (illustrative):

caseId	employerName	state	naicsDescription	violationCount	backWagesAmount	sourceUrl
1769409	Cedar Diner LLC	TX	Full-Service Restaurants	9	18250	enforcedata.dol.gov/views/data_summary.php?id=1769409
1801222	Valley Farms Inc	CA	All Other Misc Crop Farming	4	51000	enforcedata.dol.gov/views/data_summary.php?id=1801222

Two modes

• full: every case matching your filter.
• changes: only cases that are new, or whose record was re-loaded by DOL or whose headline figures changed since this account's last run. The state is tracked per account in a named store, so it is your timeline. The first changes run has no baseline, so it returns everything matching once, then tracks deltas from there.

Filters

• states: keep only employers in these states (two-letter codes).
• naicsPrefixes: keep only employers whose NAICS code starts with one of these prefixes.
• minBackWages: keep only cases with at least this much in total back wages.
• violationsOnly: drop concluded cases that closed with no violation found.
• sortBy and sortDir: order the results server-side by a raw DOL column.
• maxRecords: a cap on how many records a run delivers and bills. 0 means no cap; the platform spend cap is honored regardless.

What you need

The DOL enforcement API requires a free API key. Get one in a minute at https://dataportal.dol.gov/registration and pass it as the apiKey input, or set it as the DOL_API_KEY environment variable. The key is yours and free; this actor never ships one. With no key, the run exits cleanly and bills nothing.

What to expect

• The WHD enforcement dataset holds every concluded WHD compliance action since fiscal year 2005, refreshed quarterly. A filter narrows that to the slice you care about.
• The raw API is public and free directly from the Department of Labor. What this actor sells is the flat, joined record, the per-statute breakdown, the state, industry and back-wage filtering, and the per-account change feed, so you do not have to walk the 100-column raw row or diff it yourself.
• A state or industry watch is a few dollars; a quarterly changes feed is pennies a run.

Source and scope

• Source: the official US DOL Enforcement Data API v4, WHD enforcement dataset (apiprod.dol.gov), a public US government dataset, paged with a declared identifying User-Agent over a standard HTTP client.
• These are public federal labor-enforcement records about employers (business-level), not consumers. No personal contact data, no consumer profiling.
• Scope: United States only. Every row carries jurisdiction=US.
• This is a data tool, not legal advice. A WHD case record is an enforcement record, not a legal conclusion you should act on without checking the source.

Who uses it

Labor-compliance teams tracking an industry or competitor set, insurers pricing employment-practices risk, M&A due-diligence on a target's labor history, and journalists. The sourceUrl on every row points back to the DOL record so any finding can be verified.

See also

More clean, pay-only-for-results data tools from Pono Data:

• Regulatory Change Monitor - federal rulemaking from the Federal Register
• FDA Food Recall and Enforcement Alerts - US food recalls and enforcement reports

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