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Publication Date: April 2007
Publisher: Brennan Center for Justice
Author(s): Annette Bernhardt; Siobhan McGrath; James DeFilippis
Research Area: Labor
Keywords: Economic Opportunity; Enforcement; Labor Standards
Type: Report
Coverage: New York
Abstract:
Unregulated Work in the Global City was motivated by a simple premise: the many laws on the books to protect the working poor mean little if they are not enforced. Over three years of intensive research, the Brennan Center documented a city where jobs pay less than the minimum wage, and sometimes nothing at all; where employers do not pay overtime for 60-hour weeks, and deny meal breaks that are required by law; where vital health and safety regulations are routinely ignored, even after injuries occur; and where workers are subject to blatant discrimination, and retaliated against for speaking up or trying to organize.