The report recommends that Congress give the workers the right to get new jobs if their employers violate wage and hours laws or abuse them.

What is more, having avoided prosecution once, at least 70 employers willfully violated safety laws again, resulting in scores of additional deaths.

He granted workers the right to strike when employers have violated a workplace condition that has become "the custom of the land."

The G.A.O. estimated that 9,000 to 13,000 employers in the 26 states were violating the federal standards, but it did not identify them.

Warner began to complain that their employers had violated their contract.

Has an employer violated any laws if he/she dismisses employees with HIV?

Yet, as the report shows, some employers are still violating workers' rights with impunity.

The Court also held that an employer did not violate the Act if it chose to deal with the employees on an individual basis.

An aversion to ex-convicts is not always the reason when employers violate that law, the panel added.

This is counterproductive when the employer has violated the law, and agencies responsible for enforcement actions are often not funded.