An honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work. An American value. Except when those cheated out of pay are the current scapegoats for many, if not all, of the nation’s problems. Immigrant workers.
“In a sense, it’s a real test of whether we mean what we say when we start mouthing platitudes,” says Bryan Lonegan, a faculty member at Seton Hall Law School in Newark. He and his students recently issued a report showing immigrant day laborers gathering in Newark every morning are regularly cheated by employers.
“Informal day labor markets implicate serious legal issues when employers fail to adhere to wage and overtime laws and do no follow safety standards, which apply to all New Jersey workers regardless of immigration status,” warns the report, entitled “Ironbound Underground: Wage Theft and Workplace Violations Among Day Laborers in Newark’s East Ward.”…
http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2010/08/seton_hall_newark_day_laborers.html
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