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Labor Office Warns Budget Reductions Could Shrink Worker Outreach That Helps Recover Wages
Summary
OLSE director Pat Mulligan told supervisors his office faces required reductions and that the primary area for cuts would be the community service contract with the Workers' Rights Community Collaborative; advocates testified that cuts (a public figure of ~50% / roughly $750,000) would reduce multilingual outreach and wage‑theft recovery.
Pat Mulligan, director of the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, briefed the Budget and Appropriation Committee on April 24 about OLSE’s work and budget pressures.
Mulligan said the office — established by unanimous board vote and now enforcing dozens of local labor policies — has recovered substantial sums for workers: “Since its inception, the office of labor standards enforcement has collected more than $150,000,000 on behalf of workers and in excess of 20,000,000 just last fiscal year,” he told the committee.
Asked about budget impacts, Mulligan described a budget direction to meet a 10% reduction in the…
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