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New York City is the first jurisdiction to set a minimum pay rate for app-based food delivery workers.  Beginning July 12, 2023, the new law

Discriminating against someone because of height or weight when it comes to work, housing or in public accommodation is now barred in New York City.

The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $333,000 in back wages and liquidated damages for 51 employees of a Long Island maintenance company that

Many companies have announced specific hiring goals in response to heightened awareness of racial and gender inequalities. But some of those goals are now being

The New Jersey Department of Labor recently completed a strategic enforcement initiative involving the retail laundromat industry. Department of Labor investigators visited 20 retail laundromat

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the guilty pleas of Samco Electrical for stealing more than $1 million in wages from workers on

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney, in partnership with the New York State Department of Labor and the New York State Insurance Fund, announced

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, announced the creation of the Office’s first-ever Worker Protection Unit to investigate and prosecute wage theft and other forms

According to a study conducted by National Bureau of Economic Research, employers cheated workers out of $4 billion in overtime wages by misclassifying them as