Wage and Hour Division

Wage and Hour Division enforcement cases

DOL WHISARD · closed enforcement cases across the statutes DOL enforces

DOL publishes concluded compliance actions, including whether it found violations, back wages due, and civil money penalties assessed. Filter the record below, or open an employer to compare its recorded findings with its filings.

DOL WHISARD · last ingested Aug 9, 2026

What the records contain / all statutes, all states

367,892WHD casesclosed investigations in scope$4.8BBack wages assessedemployer payment DOL ordered$384.5MCivil money penaltiesassessed on top of back wages
5,413,337 employees on cited violationssum of per-case counts, as recorded2,887 cases (0.8%) cite H-1B violationsthe slice the H-1B filter narrows to1,412 resolve to an employer recordthe join that makes employer links work
Coverage & counting notesdate typos, what a case is, the employer match

A case is a concluded DOL compliance action. The source records whether violations were found and any back wages or penalties assessed. A closed action does not by itself establish a violation. Case identifiers remain in the dataset, API, and Markdown twin.

Findings dates outside 1900–2030 are source typos and are excluded from this browse; the raw record keeps them.

An employer match connects a case to an employer dossier through the recorded employer name. Cases without a match still count; they only lack the dossier link.

Agency findings

367,892 cases in scope

RecordDOL WHISARD · concluded compliance actions

H-1B violation cases only2,887
EmployerBack wages
Puerto Rico Department of CorrectionsPRfindings 1999-11-01 → 2011-10-29$39.7M
Wal-MartARfindings 2000-02-11 → 2007-07-30$30.9M
Holland ServicesPAfindings 2012-04-01 → 2019-04-21$25.9M
Management & Training Corp.TXfindings 2006-08-01 → 2009-12-31$21.0M
Puerto Rico Police DepartmentPRfindings 2017-09-06 → 2018-06-30$20.7M
HalliburtonTXfindings 2013-05-05 → 2015-05-03$18.2M
Inverness Technologies, Inc.VAfindings 2016-09-01 → 2019-07-03$14.6M
MD Dept. of Public Safety and CorrectionsMDfindings 2018-10-24 → 2021-08-10$13.0M

Sorted by largest back wages. Source: DOL WHISARD (Wage and Hour Investigative Support and Report Database), last ingested 2026-08-09. Rows open the employer dossier. Case identifiers stay in the dataset, the API, and the markdown twin.

Federal court cases

1,609 cases · 414 defendant employers

RecordCourtListener / RECAP × employer match · allegations, not findings

A court complaint is an allegation; check the docket for the outcome. An employer match connects records; it does not mean a suit concerns H-1B workers. Defendants who do not match an employer record are excluded from these counts.

Employer-matched subset of the CourtListener / RECAP bulk export.

CourtListener / RECAP · last ingested Jul 26, 2026

Source: Free Law Project: CourtListener / RECAP · REST API search by defendant employer · Refreshed Jul 26, 2026

Stored employer linkage uses name-key matches. It prefers a matched defendant, then falls back to another matched party, including a plaintiff. Links are unverified. Coverage is a curated target set, not all federal litigation.

Methodology

Newest casesnewest first · 1,609 employer-matched

Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Chirp Networks, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc. · District Court, N.D. California · filed 2026-08-06

Other Statutory Actions · Civil Miscellaneous Case

Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Advanced Cybernetics Group, Inc.

Advanced Cybernetics Group · District Court, N.D. California · filed 2026-08-06

Other Statutory Actions · Civil Miscellaneous Case

D. v. META PLATFORMS, INC., formerly known as Facebook, Inc.

CO-D Inc. · District Court, N.D. California · filed 2026-08-06

Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Abacus Controls Group, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc. · District Court, N.D. California · filed 2026-08-06

Other Statutory Actions · Civil Miscellaneous Case

St. Hilaire v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Tata Consultancy Services Limited · District Court, C.D. California · filed 2026-08-06

Banks v. Bank of America, N.A.

Bank of America N.A. · District Court, N.D. California · filed 2026-08-06

Geraldo v. Accenture LLP

Accenture LLP · District Court, N.D. California · filed 2026-08-06

ORACLE AMERICA INC

Oracle America, Inc. · United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Delaware · filed 2026-08-06

Most-sued defendant employerstop 100 of 414

Case types across the matched docket12 types · share of employer-matched cases
  • Employment160 · 23.7%
  • Patent96 · 14.2%
  • Personal Injury Product Liability81 · 12.0%
  • Other Contract64 · 9.5%
  • Other Statutory Actions63 · 9.3%
  • Immigration (Other)39 · 5.8%
  • Code 89932 · 4.7%
  • Fair Labor Standards Act32 · 4.7%
  • Personal Injury Medical Malpractice31 · 4.6%
  • Other Civil Rights28 · 4.1%
  • Securities/Commodities26 · 3.9%
  • Civil Rights ADA (Employment)23 · 3.4%
Employment160
Patent96
Personal Injury Product Liability81
Other Contract64
Other Statutory Actions63
Immigration (Other)39
Code 89932
Fair Labor Standards Act32
Personal Injury Medical Malpractice31
Other Civil Rights28
Securities/Commodities26
Civil Rights ADA (Employment)23

Nature-of-suit codes describe how the case was classified at filing; employment-related codes sit beside the other civil categories also matched to these employers.

Source: CourtListener / RECAP methodology. The match covers a curated target set, not all federal litigation.

Reading the ledgers

Agency records and court filings describe different stages of a case. Read the agency violation and assessment fields for its findings. A court complaint carries allegations; check the docket for the outcome. An employer match does not establish that a lawsuit concerns H-1B workers.

Sources: DOL WHISARD and CourtListener / RECAP. Source documentation is listed below. Aggregated H-1B enforcement analysis lives on /enforcement.

Questions about the data & methods

WHD case data FAQ

What is WHISARD?

WHISARD (the Wage and Hour Investigative Support and Report Database) is the Wage and Hour Division's record of its enforcement cases, published through data.dol.gov. This page browses that release case by case.

How many WHD enforcement cases are in the record?

367,892 concluded compliance actions: $4.8B in back wages assessed and $384.5M in civil money penalties. These are the same figures shown in the metric strip above the table.

Are these numbers modeled or estimated?

The agency amounts come from DOL records. They are not model estimates. The release includes concluded compliance actions and records whether violations were found. The separate federal court section contains docket records, which can include unresolved allegations.

What counts as an H-1B violation case?

A case where DOL recorded violations of the H-1B statute provisions (counted per worker affected). The 'H-1B violation cases only' filter narrows to these; /enforcement aggregates them into national trends.

Public source records and site analysis. We do not attest to accuracy. Read the full disclaimer.

Dataset guides and site methods

  1. [1] Dataset documentation · DOL Wage and Hour Division. Wage and Hour Division Compliance Action Data. Dataset description: concluded actions since FY2005, back wages, employees and civil money penaltiesThe published dataset covers concluded compliance actions, including whether violations were found. It is not a list of pending complaints or proof that every reported amount was collected.Checked 2026-10-18.
  2. [2] Dataset documentation · Free Law Project. PACER Data APIs: dockets, parties and attorneys. Overview; Dockets; Parties; AttorneysExplains linked docket, entry, document, party and attorney objects. Missing matches or documents are not evidence that no case or filing exists.Checked 2026-10-18.
  3. [3] XH1B method or registry · XH1B. Reading Public Records and Derived Indicators. Reading records: units, source coverage, wage gaps, entity links, and inference limitsThese are the site's review methods, not validated predictions of wrongdoing. Inspect underlying records and alternative explanations.