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    • Wage and Hour Division Compliance Action Data

    Metadata Updated: January 20, 2026

    The dataset contains all concluded WHD compliance actions since FY 2005. The dataset includes whether any violations were found and the back wage amount, number of employees due back wages, and civil money penalties assessed. More information and details about the data provided can be found at http://www.dol.gov/whd/

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

    Downloads & Resources

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 12, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2026
    Data Update Frequency R/P3M

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOL JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 12, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2026
    Publisher WHD
    Maintainer
    Identifier WHD-16-012:027-381
    Data First Published 2025-07-09
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-29T13:40:09.201Z
    Rights true
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P3M
    Bureau Code 000:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://enfxfr.dol.gov/data_catalog/WHD/whd_data_dictionary_20220414.csv.zip
    Data Dictionary Type text/csv
    Harvest Object Id 66b961d0-b79b-4c03-8938-d4cdf9aa2fe8
    Harvest Source Id 81f6ae6e-c0d0-4e98-bb1b-04e323ef429e
    Harvest Source Title DOL JSON
    Homepage URL http://developer.dol.gov/dataset/dol-whd-compliance-dataset
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 000:000
    Publisher Hierarchy WHD > Wage and Hour Division > WHD
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1c85a35250157c8f35a9c4ca0597fa735bd40090b8f96c36a002dc8240607d9c
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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