• Thales@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    The New York State Department of Labor still needs to recover 63% of stolen wages during a five-year period analyzed by ProPublica and Documented. The problem? An understaffed agency with poor tools for recovering wages and enforcing judgments.

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        One of the problems is wages. A lot of state/county jobs, say grade 8s, offer very low wages and right now private sector around the state recently bumped up wages 2+ dollars an hour (manufacturing/packaging/warehouse type jobs) in preparing for a hike in minimum wage. State jobs still haven’t accounted for it.