Empaneling a wage board allows Cuomo to circumvent the need for legislative approval — a maneuver that AG Eric Schneiderman, who has been pursuing
cases of wage theft in the fast food industry since 2013, publicly called on the governor to pursue in a Daily News OpEd last month.
Not exact matches
Jones said the Green Party supported hiring more Labor Department investigators to deal with the 2 year backlog
of wage theft cases (15,000).
The Cuomo administration instead wants to reduce the backlog by cutting in half the amount
of time they will look backwards in
wage thefts cases, 3 years instead
of 6.
Cuomo this year refused to add more labor department staff in the state budget to cut down on the two year backlog
of wage theft cases.
Tax - and
wage - related fraud is the most common type
of identity
theft, accounting for 45 percent
of all reported
cases.
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of wage theft?
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cases involving claims for wrongful termination, age discrimination, sex discrimination, disability discrimination, national origin discrimination, racial discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, religious discrimination, retaliation,
wage and hour violations, ERISA violations, sexual harassment, breach
of contract, trade secret
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