By Darius Rohani-Shukla and Eric J. Conn
In late January 2024, the Department of Labor released its annual report summarizing the Solicitor of Labor’s (SOL) enforcement work in FY 2023. SOL enforces more than 180 federal statutes and their implementing regulations. 
This report is a helpful resource for employers as it demonstrates SOL’s most recent enforcement priorities. In its report, SOL emphasized three aspects of its FY23 enforcement work:
- SOL’s Emphasis on Retaliation Claims;
- SOL’s Use of Litigation and Amicus Work to Affect Employee Misclassification and Coercive Employer Tactics; and
- SOL’s Willingness to Use All Tools at its Disposable.
As the Solicitor of Labor said as an introduction to the report:
“We recognize that as the government, we play a unique role in the federal labor enforcement landscape…. This report will focus on three key aspects of our work: building out our retaliation priority across program areas; utilizing our litigation tools and our amicus and appellate practices to build positive developments in the law, such as combatting misclassification and coercive employer tactics; and deepening our use of all the tools in our toolbox, from warrants, to enhanced
compliance agreements, to criminal enforcement coordination.”
- SOL’s Emphasis on Retaliation Claims
