Seth Harris: “Misclassification is no mere technical violation. It is a serious threat to workers and the fair application of the laws…”

If we are able to raise wages across the board, particularly for low-wage and middle-skill workers, we are simply going to have more people spending more money.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify about the urgency of raising the Federal minimum wage.

We need to skill workers up so that they can compete for those high-wage, high-skill jobs, but that is difficult for a lot of workers.

So comp time is not like cash wages. If you pay somebody cash overtime they control how it is spent--the worker controls how it is spent.