washington wildflowers, from the passenger seat
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A lot of people are gonna learn in the next 6-18 months that the “activists” they’ve been following and reblogging are absolutely Hamas or Russian fakes trying to get you to hate Jews. And you’re falling for it because you hate Jews. And all your Jewish “friends” knew this already and won’t forgive you.
Just calling my shot now. Not gonna tag this cuz I don’t want the inevitable hatred. But I want this on the record now so I can say “I told you so.”
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New York lawmakers proposed three new bills last week that would make it difficult for wage theft violators to conduct business in the state.
The legislation would bolster the power of state agencies to crack down on wage theft by stripping violators of their liquor licenses or business licenses, as well as issuing stop-work orders against them.
The legislation was prompted by reports of rampant wage theft against New York workers, including two investigations published by Documented and ProPublica. The stories revealed that more than 127,000 New Yorkers have been victims of wage theft during a recent five-year period, but that the New York State Department of Labor was unable to recover $79 million in back wages owed to the workers.
The stories were based on an analysis of two databases of wage theft violations obtained from the U.S. and New York Labor departments. The databases provided previously unreported details on how much money had been stolen from workers and also shed light on which businesses had committed wage theft.
“We knew from our conversations with labor and from our constituent service caseload that wage theft is a chronic problem,” said Sen. Jessica Ramos, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation. “We did not have the data to understand the scale of the issue in New York state until the ProPublica and Documented series came out last year. Having this reporting as a tool set us up to put this package together and focused our attention on” the capacity of the Department of Labor.
The legislation — dubbed the “wage theft deterrence package” by lawmakers — includes three bills, which are co-sponsored in the State Assembly by Assembly members Kenny Burgos, Harvey Epstein and Linda Rosenthal.
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