Mount Pleasant, NY
Business
$35.3M Returned To 36,446 NY Wage-Theft Victims, Cuomo Says $35.3M Returned To 36,446 NY Wage-Theft Victims, Cuomo Says
$35.3M Returned To 36,446 NY Wage-Theft Victims, Cuomo Says More than $35 million was returned to 36,446 victims of wage theft last year, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In the region, the state returned more than $4 million to 2,389 wage theft victims according to this report.  In addition, $1 million in continued funding was secured in the Fiscal Year 2019 budget to support the expansion of the Department of Labor's staff of investigators, Cuomo said. In 2016, $34 million was returned to 27,420 wage theft victims, marking an increase of over $1.3 million returned to an additional 9,026 victims.  Since Cuomo took office, the state has recovered a…

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by Jon Craig
Hackensack, NJ
News
Assemblywoman Goes Undercover Exposing Bad Service In Hackensack Office Assemblywoman Goes Undercover Exposing Bad Service In Hackensack Office
Assemblywoman Goes Undercover Exposing Bad Service In Hackensack Office Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi visited the Bergen County Unemployment Office in Hackensack to reveal bad service, posting her findings on Facebook in a video. The assemblywoman had received a complaint by state resident Monica Brinson, saying that she visits the office often for its benefits but feels as if she's treated like an inmate She recorded what she saw on her cell phone Monday: which was a crowd of people saying they'd been waiting for hours. "I almost got physically removed for videotaping the attached but afterwards did get a comprehensive tour and analysis of the good, bad a…

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by Cecilia Levine