No. I worked for public employers of some size and they like to keep their nose clean on personnel matters. If individual managers acted wrongly (probably some did because no organization is perfect) they got slapped down.
In the library world there were endless discussions about non-exempt employees taking work home, what counts as “work” if they’re riding or driving in a car to and from a conference, etc. because of fear of labor standards violations.
I’m so glad I don’t have to go to work any more to deal with that tedious stuff.
I didn’t report anything to the Labor Board, but I was so mad about one action of my employer I talked to an attorney and made it clear up the management chain that I didn’t care how much my attorney cost me, I wanted a problem resolved or there would be legal action. It was resolved.
What I learned in that little exercise is all the labor attorneys out there want discrimination cases. It was not a discrimination issue I had so I had a harder time finding an attorney but just ended up using someone we had used for an early iteration of our will.
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