The Honorable Patty Murray
United States Senate
154 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

The Honorable Rosa DeLauro
United States House of Representatives
Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515

Re: The Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act

Dear Senator Murray and Congresswoman DeLauro:

The undersigned organizations write in enthusiastic support for The Wage Theft Prevention and Wage
Recovery Act (S. 2697/H.R. 4376), which you introduced on March 16, 2016. As you know, wage theft is
an epidemic that costs mostly low-wage workers tens of billions of dollars each year in unpaid wages.
The legal tools they have at their disposal, be it thinly-resourced departments of labor or private
lawsuits, are not available to far too many workers seeking to be properly paid for all of their work. The
Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act is an important and truly comprehensive weapon in the
fight against wage theft.

This legislation, if enacted, would for the first time, impose a federal mandate that workers be paid the
wages they were promised, not just the federal minimum wage. The bill would also impose a uniform
federal standard for what must be disclosed on a pay stub, giving workers the … Read More