DOVER, Del. (AP) - The state division charged with enforcing Delaware's labor laws is funded at around half the level it was a decade ago, despite having around 20,000 more jobs to oversee.
A News Journal analysis of spending show the Labor Department's Division of Industrial Affairs was cut in 2008 and then slashed in half in 2010, leaving it with a $6.2 million budget and staff of 66 today. The division investigates complaints related to workers' compensation, labor law, occupational health and safety and discrimination.