N.C. Department Of Labor Falls Short In Helping Unpaid Workers

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,

Charlie Shelton

Published October 15, 2015 at 12:23 PM EDT

News & Observer investigative reporter Mandy Locke talks about the responsibility of the N.C. Department of Labor to protect the rights of workers

It is the responsibility of the N.C. Department of Labor to protect the rights of workers.

But a new report from the News & Observer finds that state investigators for the department did not collect $1 million in wages that were owed to 617 workers in 2014.

Host Frank Stasio talks with News & Observer investigative reporter Mandy Locke about the reasons why the state has not helped hundreds of workers find financial compensation.

Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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Charlie Shelton