Wage and Hour Division

The Wage and Hour Division is responsible for planning, directing, and administering programs dealing with a variety of Federal labor legislation.

Where its power comes from

An agency can act only where a law lets it. These are the laws its rules cite, where its rules live, and the bills that would change it.

The U.S. Code sections its rules of the last six years cite as their authority, most cited first, of 49.

Mode of recovery28 U.S.C. 2461 · 15 rule parts
29 U.S.C. 20112 rule parts
33 U.S.C. 9013 rule parts
Definitions8 U.S.C. 1101 · 3 rule parts
Admission of nonimmigrants8 U.S.C. 1184 · 3 rule parts
Congressional statement of purpose29 U.S.C. 1801 · 1 rule part
Regulations29 U.S.C. 2654 · 1 rule part
Collection of data29 U.S.C. 211 · 2 rule parts
Exemptions29 U.S.C. 213 · 2 rule parts
Penalties29 U.S.C. 216 · 2 rule parts
United States Employment Service established29 U.S.C. 49 · 2 rule parts
Congressional findings and declaration of purpose; short title30 U.S.C. 901 · 2 rule parts

Where the rules it wrote these six years sit in the Code of Federal Regulations.

What it made final, the cases it brought, and where Congress moved to undo its work.

The newest rules it made final.

Lobbyists who used to work there.

Lobbyists whose filings list a past job here.

Todd Dupler2007-2009: Senior Advisor, Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division; 2007 - 2007: Counsel, Congressman Kevin Brady; 2006 - 2007… · last filed 2026

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