From firms that advertised for female workers to an employer who targeted a worker for harassment because of her religion, dozens of companies paid four- and five-figure sums last year on the orders of the city’s Human Rights Commission.
Living as we do in a global financial capital that attracts loads of tourists, you don’t need to resort to chaos theory to wonder if events across the pond could affect prospects here.
A push to address the very low minimum wage of tipped workers recalls the exchange between Mr. White and Mr. Pink.
For six years, the lowest paid human-service workers in New York State have not had a cost of living adjustment, meaning their real wages have shrunk by nearly 12 percent. Is this the year Albany finally wakes up to that injustice?
Advocates for low-wage workers say the state isn’t doing enough to hunt down scofflaw employers.
Tobias Salinger | Authorities found that a Williamsburg construction company owed its workers $500,000, but no one’s been paid yet. Advocates blame enforcement delays on overburdened state inspectors.
President Obama and Democrats in Albany want a higher minimum wage. Among Brooklyn’s low-wage workers, who will it help and how much?
Is $11.50 an hour too high? Is $9 enough? The candidates react.
‘It hurts the young. It helps too little. It boosts unemployment.’ There are plenty of myths about the minimum wage. The reality is, more and more workers are working at a pay rate that puts them in poverty.
We asked Soviet experts what they thought of the comparisons Mayor Bloomberg has been making between communist wage policy and a local living wage proposal.
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