State and Local Labor Standards Enforcement During COVID-19

The need to safeguard workers’ physical health and financial stability is more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. State and local labor enforcement agencies are critical to such efforts, particularly given the federal administration’s abdication of leadership on worker-protection issues. Yet responding to the current crisis will require state and local labor agenciesto quickly reorient to a new reality and repurpose their staff and routine functions in new and creative ways.