The agency that enforces D.C.’s wage laws is being accused of failing to pay overtime.

Residents allege the city’s troubled unemployment agency failed to block thieves filing claims using stolen or inaccurate data.

“I am simply done with excuses,” labor committee chairperson Elissa Silverman said to kick off an oversight hearing Wednesday.

The city’s overwhelmed unemployment office continues to experience delays, leaving frustrated workers without income or clear solutions.

D.C. residents launched a virtual tip jar for under-employed hospitality workers. A year later, it’s still active—and highlighting the limits of mutual aid.

Thousands of D.C.-area residents have waited weeks or months to receive unemployment benefits –– if they receive them at all.

At his weekly press conference earlier today, Mayor Vince Gray signed into law a bill that strengthen’s the city’s “First Source” law requiring government-assisted projects to fill at least 51 percent of any jobs created with District residents.

Another day, another investigation into potential fraud inside a city agency which has led to the termination of another city employee. This time around, it’s the Department of Employment Services, which has fired interim associate director of unemployment compensation Gaby Fraser amid a D.C. Inspector General investigation into possible fraud.

Loose Lips was first to the news this afternoon that Rochelle Webb, the acting Department of Employment Services Director who recently made headlines for living on the taxpayer dime at the W Hotel for a month and having a city-provided chauffeur during that same period, has been fired.

The unemployment rate in the District rose back to 9.9 percent in August, mostly due to the end of the Summer Youth Employment Program. The national unemployment rate stands at 9.6 percent. The District Department of Employment Services announced that on the whole, the number of jobs in the District decreased by 500, or a negative change of 0.1 percent over last August. The only labor category to post an increase in jobs in August…