A new report says the state needs to strengthen its trafficking task forces and include more people who reflect local communities, including immigrants
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Opinion: Workplace justice and immigration enforcement should not be mixed
Wage theft is illegal. But it can be nigh impossible to enforce when the threat of deportation looms.
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“What’d I Miss?”: Intentional or not, who really pays when workers get stiffed?
In “What’d I Miss?” Myra wonders why, when companies fail to pay workers what they’re due, they’re treated differently than an individual caught stealing.
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Colorado farmworker rights and wages bills signed into law, along with other measures aiding immigrants
By James Anderson, The Associated Press Thousands of immigrant farmworkers in Colorado will soon have state minimum wage, overtime and labor organizing rights under Senate Bill 87, signed into law Friday by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis. Polis also signed into law a measure to create a state fund to help indigent immigrants get legal representation […]
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Opinion: Criminalizing wage theft is only one step in the right direction
“A day worked is a day paid,” a day laborer in Lakewood, Colorado stated . But according to the Colorado Fiscal Institute (CFI), this is not the case for many Colorado workers. Each year, half a million Coloradans suffer from wage theft, amounting to $750 million a year, in addition to the associated $25 million […]
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Construction workers exploited by Colorado’s underground economy want to add bite to wage theft law
In Colorado’s underground economy, where cash flows under the table and crews are lured by the promise of good wages and free housing, workers are getting ripped off. Especially construction workers who don’t speak English or aren’t living here legally. Union officials have uncovered allegations of wage theft from subcontracted workers who restored Colorado Mills […]