Report Shows Surge in Wage and Workplace Violations
With Labor Day right around the corner, we speak with Annette Bernhardt, one of the authors of a report showing a surge in wage and workplace violations: Confronting the Gloves-Off Economy: America’s Broken Labor Standards and How to Fix Them. The report compiled interviews with more than 4000 low-wage workers in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. What they described was an astounding number of violations ? from unpaid overtime to employers not paying minimum wage ? and an overall lack of enforcement.
Bernhardt is the policy co-director for the advocacy group National Employment Law Project. We also hear from Amy Carroll, an attorney at a community center in Brooklyn, New York: Make the Road New York. The group represents thousands of workers who have seen workplace violations firsthand.
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