City Council Holds Hearing on Wage Theft
In light of widespread victimization of immigrant day laborers, a City Council committee met this morning in an effort to legally criminalize wage theft. Read more from Nola.com.
The event and the media attention it drew is an important success for the attorneys of the Employment Rights Consortium and the Wage Claims Clinic. Eva San Martin, coordinator of the Public Safety program of Puentes, has been very involved with these groups in their work to assist those affected by wage theft. Congratulations to all those who are working to improve justice for Latinos in New Orleans.