Queens lawmakers urges Labor Department to raise tipped workers to full minimum wage
Leave your thoughtsTwo Queens representatives are calling on the state to put tipped workers on the same level as other workers at…
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New York’s tipped wage: Will it soon be eliminated?
Leave your thoughtsALBANY – The state Labor Department held seven hearings, received more than 40 hours of testimony and accepted hundreds of…
Labor Unions Will Be Smaller After Supreme Court Decision, but Maybe Not Weaker
Leave your thoughtsWith the Supreme Court striking down laws that require government workers to pay union fees, one thing is clear: Most…
Caen dos empleadores por robo de salario a hispanos en Long Island
Leave your thoughtsEran dueños de plantas de procesadoras de carne. Falsificaban los registros de nómina para no pagar lo justo a los…
A tale of two e-bikes: City moves ahead to help rich cyclists, while thousands of deliverymen suffer
Leave your thoughtsIt’s a rolling hypocrisy. Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to punish hard-working deliverymen for using low-cost battery-powered bicycles but is…
Delivery workers who ride e-bikes need NYPD to stop ticketing, transit advocates say
Leave your thoughtsE-bike rules unfairly target low-income, immigrant delivery workers, and the city should instead support their efforts to legally comply with…
Hearing on raising minimum wage for tipped workers draws 500
Leave your thoughtsAbout 500 people attended a contentious, day-long hearing in Farmingdale on Friday about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to raise…
NYC estudia endurecer las medidas contra el robo de salario
Leave your thoughtsEl pasado 5 de abril la oficina del Fiscal del Distrito de Manhattan, Cyrus R. Vance Jr. anunció la declaración…
De Blasio Moves to Permit Pedal-Assist Electric Bikes on NYC Streets
Leave your thoughtsAdvocates welcomed the announcement while pointing out that more needs to be done to prevent harassment of delivery workers by…
Denuncian aumento de robo de salarios por subcontratistas
Leave your thoughts“La otra semana le pago”. “Deje de molestar tanto”. “Qué quiere que haga si a mí no me han pagado”.…