By James A. Parrott | Center of New York City Affairs Earning a living in New York’s private sector is steadily and seriously becoming more hazardous. Nearly 200,000 workers are injured annually in New York State. As the figure below indicates, the incidence of workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers has increased in […]
NEW YORK, NY – Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga today celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the city’s landmark Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law. The law, which went into effect in April 2014, was historic in its scope, and now offers more than 3.8 million employees the legal right to […]
Governor Kathy Hochul. Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By Jake Pearson, ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was originally published by ProPublica. As New York lawmakers hammer out a more than $200 billion budget this week, they […]
Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By Jose Martinez | March 6, 2024 Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced the latest in a series of subway safety initiatives, placing MTA police officers, state troopers and 750 National Guard members at some of the city’s busiest stations to conduct bag checks. Following some headline-grabbing incidents underground […]
Listen to the interview with New York State Trial Lawyers Association President, David Scher, here: New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Chair of the NYS Senate Judiciary Committee, reintroduced the Grieving Families Act (2024-S8485) on Monday, landmark legislation that reforms and modernizes New York’s antiquated wrongful death statute. The legislature passed the bill with overwhelming bipartisan support […]
Editorial credit: DW labs Incorporated / Shutterstock.com NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today sued Citibank, N.A. (Citi) for failing to protect and refusing to reimburse victims of fraud. The lawsuit alleges that Citi does not implement strong online protections to stop unauthorized account takeovers, misleads account holders about their rights after their […]
Editorial credit: Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com NEW YORK, NY – Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga today announced nearly $3 million in relief secured for workers from six major businesses to resolve violations of the City’s workplace laws: White Castle, Taco Bell, Domino’s Pizza, Amazon, Farm Country grocery store, and Public Preparatory […]
At the end of 2023, New York food delivery workers won a huge victory with an increase in our minimum wage. In response, app companies immediately conspired to push us back down. Now, customer tips we rely on to survive are on the line. The State Supreme Court’s November decision to uphold the city’s new law to […]
Federally Funded Factory Produced Ammunition Used at Tops Supermarket Shooting in Buffalo and Other Recent Mass Shootings NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James led a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general calling on the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to investigate recent reports that a federally funded contractor has produced military-grade […]
The city evacuated migrants from Floyd Bennett Field while a major storm brought strong rain and winds, Jan. 9, 2023. Credit: Alex Krales/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan and Michael Elsen-Rooney, Chalkbeat | January 10, 2024 Officials hastily moved hundreds of families living at the Floyd Bennett Field migrant shelter in Brooklyn early Tuesday evening as a powerful storm […]