. >> reporter: joanne moon is a director of the coalition for minimum wage.ot of times thing sweat shots, and here in the united states all kinds of workers are sweated. one aspect of being sweated is being robbed of your wages. you can talk about raising the minimum wage to $20 an hour, $30 an hour. it will not be real unless the law is enforced. >> for the agency that is supposed to enforce the law, they are struggling to keep up. we are at the department of labour that received thousands of claims from employees saying employees stole wages from them. because the department is so backlogged it can take month, years for the claims to be investigated. we wanted to speak to someone from the state. deputy secretary alphonso davids would only speak by capital. delayed. >> a practical reality of litigation is it takes time. i suspect the case you referenced is completely outside of the department of labour and in court. the only part of the process that the department of labour controls is the investigation statement. after they issue their determination, they h