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The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) working definition of “Worker’s Rights: Access, Assertion, and Knowledge”, or WRAAK, in the workplace is the “worker’s ability to access information on their rights in the workplace, their understanding of those rights, and their ability to exercise those rights without fear of recrimination.” In 2010, DOL commissioned a research study to evaluate the current level of workers’ WRAAK nationally and to examine the factors affecting it as it related to the laws administered and enforced by DOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Wage and Hour Division (WHD).

This report provides findings from a nationally representative 2013 WRAAK survey that focused on overall workers’ education, experiences in the workplace, workplace environment, and issues specific to DOL OSHA and WHD. The survey consisted of a core set of questions followed by two separate modules of questions—one each for OSHA and WHD—with specific questions about each agency. All respondents received the core set of questions and then were randomly assigned to one or the other module. The random assignment of questions to one or the other module was conducted using computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) software called Survent. Special populations of minority women were oversampled to allow for additional analyses.

Citation

Gallup. (2013). Survey of Public Opinion of the U.S. Population Working Rights. Chief Evaluation Office, U.S. Department of Labor.

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The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) sponsors independent evaluations and research, primarily conducted by external, third-party contractors in accordance with the Department of Labor Evaluation Policy and CEO’s research development process.