The Yale Law Journal

Jordan Laris Cohen

Note

Democratizing the FLSA Injunction: Toward a Systemic Remedy for Wage Theft

Jordan Laris Cohen

This Note identifies a remedial shortcoming in the Fair Labor Standards Act: the absence of private injunctive relief. It identifies this oversight as a vestige of a New Deal-era presumption of agency-centered enforcement and proposes a new way to vindicate workers’ rights through private enforcemen…