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Bold Ideas, Emerging Leaders - Roosevelt Network Emerging Fellows Journal 2024

29 Jul 2024

The practices and working conditions in much of the industry illustrate how the reorganization of production has changed the dynamic between workers and employers more broadly. [...] If New York is to guarantee workers’ rights, it must adapt to this reorganization—a task that demands a new model for how the NYS DOL enforces labor law and reimagines the role of the state as a force for reshaping the economy to serve the public good. [...] The law would give workers the right to appoint a wage checker and establish the rights necessary for wage checkers to be effective— such as the rights to contact the workforce to offer their services and to access records once appointed. [...] The policies under consideration by the state legislature, such as the SEAT Act and the EMPIRE Worker Protection Act, represent an acknowledgment of how the neoliberal approach has failed and signal a willingness to reimagine the state’s role in the market. [...] Among the most glaring of these issues is the subminimum wage and the lack of protections in place for food and beverage workers in Wisconsin.
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87
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United States of America

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