Workers with low pay sue employers

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(Free-Press-Release.com) May 31, 2007 -- Immigrants comprise almost half of the work force in New York City and even around the country. However, they are faced with unjust conditions and very low pay since their employers usually ignore labor laws covering immigrant workers. They have long gotten used to the workers who are more grateful of landing a job and are compliant and silent enough on whatever condition they have to bear and however low the pay they receive. Lately, though, a seething rebellion from the workers of the service industry is threatening this kind of arrangements between the workers and employers.

Los Angeles, California, May 29, 2007 � Recently, workers suffering from low pay all over the country have started filing lawsuits seeking back wages amounting to thousands of dollars. They are demanding for the amounts their employers were supposed to have paid them according to minimum wage implementation and the overtime work pay.

Underpaid workers covered in a wide range of industries file the complaints that continue to pile up. Immigrant workers, without regards of their legal status in the country have become brave enough to go to court and demand for just payments.

There are federal lawsuits filed by workers allegedly due to violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act have more than doubled all over the country, recently. In 2000, violation of labor law cases number to 1,854 cases, now, during the past year, 2006 the cases already number to 4,389. The U.S. Courts Administrative Office gave this figure.

In New York City, the complaints came from workers who, according to them, have worked and survived mostly on tips. Meanwhile, supermarket�s grocery baggers living in low � income districts filed complaints and lawsuits in the state labor office during the past year. They claimed that they only survive on coin wages given by customers that would add up to only $250 weekly.

However, this noticeable increase in litigations may not actually mean that there are violations in labor law taking place.

The U.S. Labor Department even gave a report saying that the number of complaints they received actually declined for a second year. Even the biggest states reported that it had a decrease in investigations regarding wage violations. California, for example, dealt only with 38,873 cases during the past year as compared to the 50,127 cases it tackled in 2002.
"I think workers, in general, are becoming more and more aware of their rights to be paid properly," according to a labor lawyer.
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