High incidents of wage theft in New York prompt legislative push for remedy
New York labor advocates are making a last-minute push in Albany to pass a bill that they say will hold corrupt employers accountable for labor law violations and increase enforcement around wage theft.
“The problem is that we simply do not have enough people within the Department of Labor to investigate [these issues],” Josh Pomeranz, director of operations for Teamsters Local 804, told Capital Tonight. “We have approximately 146 investigators for the entire state.”