The legislature passed a law allowing workers to place a lien on owners’ personal property to prevent them from absconding with cash and starting fresh without making court-mandated payments to workers. It awaits Gov. Cuomo’s signature.
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Opinion: Affordable-Housing Workers Deserve Fairness, Too
Kyle Bragg |
The mayor’s housing plan will generate more than 1,800 new jobs for porters, maintenance workers, superintendents and other building service workers—which could provide life-changing opportunities, if they come with good wages and benefits.
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Opinion: Amazon Deal’s Collapse Shows the Work Big Tech Must Do in NYC
Art Langer |
Big Tech can succeed here, but only if its presence benefits all New Yorkers.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Stop Pitting Home-Care Workers Against Employers
Tara Klein |
State regulations force workers to accept dire wages, and it’s time for the state to take responsibility for covering these costs and rectifying a system it has neglected for decades.
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Are City Schools and Hospitals Doing Enough to Diversify Medicine?
Bob Kirsch |
Reducing racial disparities within the practice of medicine will take work by elementary-school teachers, high-school counselors, college programs, med schools and mentor physicians. But the work starts with letting Black and Latino kids know they have the right to dream.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: New York’s Renewable Projects Need Prevailing Wages
Maritza Silva-Farrell |
‘As we direct our state’s resources into renewable infrastructure, it’s critical that we invest in the workers who build it. ‘
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Spirit of Cesar Chavez Lives On in Fight for Tipped Workers’ Wages
Anthony Advincula |
”Chavez once said, ‘The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It’s always about people.’ It’s time for Gov. Cuomo to pass One Fair Wage and treat tipped workers with respect and dignity.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Time for Albany to Harvest Long Overdue Crop of Justice for NYS Farmworkers
Olivia Heffernan |
‘For the farmworkers of New York State, the Farmworkers Fair Labors Practices Act (FFLPA) is a promising remediation to exploitative labor practices, poor living conditions and a pernicious exemption from legal protections or mechanisms to fight against it.’
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Opinion: Loophole Means Criminal Charges Set to be Dismissed Still Upend Lives in NYS
Melissa Ader |
An ‘ACD’ is a common mechanism in our criminal legal system to dismiss and seal all charges. But while pending, the charges are accessible to the public – including employers.
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Brain Waste: Many Immigrants Come With Dreams—and Advanced Training—but Can’t Find Jobs
Tiziana Rinaldi |
An orthopedic surgeon tosses pizza dough. An engineer with a doctorate drives for Uber and Lyft. They are among thousands who arrived here with advanced educations but can only find low-skill work.
Will New York’s Farmworkers Get Labor Protections in 2019?
Harry DiPrinzio |
With a Democratic-controlled State Senate and Assembly, many advocates are hopeful that this will be the year the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act finally passes.
