The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services' Labor Standards Office enforces all labor laws created for the protection of Wyoming workers. The Labor Standards office works to:
- Process, investigate, mediate and render decisions on complaints of employment discrimination and claims for wages;
- Provide employees and employers information and referrals on wage, benefit and employment decision matters;
- Issue certificates of residency to eligible contractors bidding on public works projects;
- Monitor employment of minors;
- Enforce the preference requirements for Wyoming resident labor on public works projects; and to
- License employment referral businesses within the state
Eligibility
The programs administered by the Labor Standards Office have varying eligibility requirements. The following requirements are necessary:
- Discrimination Complaints: Employees who work in Wyoming for employers with two or more employees, and who meet the minimally sufficient standards for establishing a complaint of employment discrimination
- Claims for Wages: Employees who work in Wyoming and who are claiming unpaid wages.
- Contractor Certificate of Residency: Qualified resident contractors engaged in construction, alteration, repair, or erection of public buildings and structures
- Child Labor: Minors 14 and 15 years of age
- Prevailing Wage Act: Employees employed on public works projects where payment of prevailing wages is a contract requirement
- Preference for Wyoming Workers: Employees employed on public works projects where the Preference laws are a contract obligation
- Employment Referral Businesses: Firms operating any employment office in the state
Services
The Labor Standards Office can provide the following services:
- Information Requests
- Complaint Processing
- Dispute Resolution
- Administrative Decisions
- Certificates of Residency for Contractors
- Licenses for Employment Referral Agencies
- Prevailing Wage Survey
- Determination
- Enforcement
Cost
All services are free, with the exception of a $25.00 annual fee for licensing employment referral businesses.