Wage enforcement weakens under Bush

I know it's already time for another minimum wage increase, but what good will it do unless the government enforces it?

The Government Accountability Office (Congress's investigative arm) just released a report showing that the Department of Labor's enforcement of the minimum wage is almost nonexistent, having weakened considerably in the past 10 years. (Cough Bush cough.)

The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division now fines violators of the wage law only 6% of the time. Then what happens the other 94% of the time?

Apparently nothing. Another GAO study said the agency "inappropriately rejected" complaints of wage law violations.

In an era when some average slob like me can probably get 5 years just for looking at someone cockeyed, you'd think the government would be able to enforce labor laws against large companies.

(Source: http://www.workforce.com/section/00/article/25/65/10.php)