This past year (August 2018), a Tompkins County Workers’ Center (TCWC) Member provided pictures to the TCWC of what we believed to have been dangerous working conditions at the Hilton Canopy Hotel Development construction site in downtown Ithaca. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspected the site and has recently found conditions in serious […]
Do you believe that the people who provide services for the homeless, the hungry, victims of domestic violence, and other social services deserve a Living Wage? Throughout the state of New York, many of these workers can’t even get basic Cost of Living (COLA) raises because the state hasn’t funded them. Stand with us and […]
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center handles between 80 and 100 cases of Wage Theft every year, and that’s scratching the surface of what’s going on just in our community. Employers steal more from their workers than the amount of dollars involved in bank robberies, burglaries, and all other thefts in the U.S. combined. TCWC has […]
The United States Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York Minimum Wage Act require that most workers must be paid the minimum wage ($11.10 for most workers in Upstate New York as of 12/31/2018), and that an employee who works more than 40 hours in a work week must receive overtime pay of 1.5 […]
New York State workers should check their pay stubs for the minimum wage increase that went into effect on December 31st, 2018. The majority of workers upstate should now be making $11.10/hour. For “Fast Food” workers minimum wage is now $12.75/hour. Fast food businesses are establishments with more than 30 locations serving primarily food and […]