Cracking down on employers who ignore wage laws | csmonitor.com

Cracking down on employers who ignore wage laws | csmonitor.com: "NEW YORK – This week Ansoumana Faty, a former grocery deliveryman in New York City, will pick up a paycheck for $7,000. Meanwhile, in upstate New York, the waiters and waitresses at the New Delhi Diamond's Restaurant in Ithaca will share a cash payout of $10,000.

They are among hundreds of people in New York who are getting reimbursed back wages and unpaid overtime as a result of recent legal settlements. Many of the employees were paid as little as $2 an hour, in jobs they worked for 10 to 12 hours a day.
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WORKPLACE ISSUE: Restaurants, including fast-food establishments (above), often pay the minimum wage.
RICHARD B. LEVINE



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Across the country, a growing number of states, advocacy groups - and even individual workers - are fighting back against wage abuses in the workplace."