The dataset provides the list of inquiries received by DCWP’s Office of Labor Policy & Standards (OLPS).

OLPS is NYC’s central resource for workers. OLPS is charged to protect and promote labor standards and policies that create fair workplaces to ensure all workers can realize their rights, regardless of immigration status. OLPS takes complaints about workplace laws and investigates claims under those laws, such as the Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law. For other issues, OLPS connects workers to relevant government agencies, legal service providers, and resources to help them access and protect their rights and get critical services.

Announcement date, disciplinary date, disciplinary number, name of the company/natural person, representative of the company, violation of Employment Service Act provisions, violation of regulatory content, remarks

According to the information published in Article 80, Paragraph 1 of the Labor Standards Act, the business owner of the violating business entity shall make an announcement.

Three tables display data on Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) enforcement, including number of cases, violation instances, and reasons for violations

Human rights monitoring reports play important roles both in the international human rights regime and in productions of human rights data. However, human rights reports are produced by organizations subject to formal and informal pressures that may influence the topics considered salient for attention and scrutiny. We study this potential using structural topic models (STMs), a method used for identifying the latent topical dimensions of texts and assessing the effects of covariates on these dimensions. We apply STMs to a corpus of 6,298 State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (1977-2012), identifying a plausible set of topics including killings and disappearances, freedoms of expression and movement, and labor rights, among others. We find that these topics vary markedly both over time and space. We also find that while U.S. domestic politics play no systematic role in shaping topic prevalence, U.S. allies tend to receive more attention to violations of physical integrity rights. These results challenge extant research, and illustrate the usefulness of STM methods for future study of foreign policy documents. Our findings also highlight the importance of topical attention shifts in documents that monitor and evaluate countries.