24 يوليو 2024
USA: South & Central American workers launch wage theft claims against 6 construction cos. amid improved access to justice under 'deferred action' policy; incl. co comment
الملخص
Date Reported: 24 يوليو 2024
الموقع: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
الشركات
Ceprine Construction - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( 1 - الاكوادور , البناء , Men , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Wage Theft , الترهيب والتهديدالرد
الرد الوارد: Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: Workers demonstrated outside the company's offices. Ceprine Construction did not respond to media questions regarding the allegations.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 24 يوليو 2024
الموقع: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
الشركات
G&B Construction - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - الأمريكتين , البناء , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي , Unknown migration status ) , عمال مهاجرون: ( 1 - السلفادور , البناء , Women , Undocumented migrants )القضايا
Wage Theftالرد
الرد الوارد: Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: Workers demonstrated outside the company's offices. G&B Construction did not respond to media questions regarding the allegations.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 24 يوليو 2024
الموقع: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
الشركات
Francisco Giron - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - الأمريكتين , البناء , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Wage Theftالرد
الرد الوارد: Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: Workers demonstrated outside the company's offices. Francisco Giron did not respond to media questions regarding the allegations.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 24 يوليو 2024
الموقع: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
الشركات
Franklin Mauricio Chuquiguanga - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - الأمريكتين , البناء , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Wage Theftالرد
الرد الوارد: Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: Workers demonstrated outside the company's offices. Franklin Mauricio Chuquiguanga did not respond to media questions regarding the allegations.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 24 يوليو 2024
الموقع: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
الشركات
KEP Construction - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - الأمريكتين , البناء , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Wage Theftالرد
الرد الوارد: Journalist
الإجراءات المتخذة: Workers demonstrated outside the company's offices. KEP Construction did not respond to media questions regarding the allegations.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 24 يوليو 2024
الموقع: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
الشركات
SK Group Construction - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - الأمريكتين , البناء , لم يتم الإبلاغ عن النوع الإجتماعي , Unknown migration status )القضايا
Wage Theftالرد
الرد الوارد: Journalist
External link to response: (Find out more)
الإجراءات المتخذة: Workers demonstrated outside the company's offices. SK Group Construction denied the claims of wage theft to the media.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
“NY eyes migrant workers’ wage theft claims. $114K hangs in the balance.”
…Cabello, 45, said he complained about the unpaid wages until May, when he was terminated. He estimates his employer owes him tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid overtime…
my three minor children depend on me in Ecuador.” [the worker said]…
Cabello is among two dozen construction workers from South and Central America who are pressing unpaid wage claims against six local construction firms. They're getting help from the advocacy group Workers Justice Project, which staged demonstrations outside of each company’s office last week…
Ceprine Construction…did not respond to questions about the allegations. Calls to four of the other firms — KEP Construction, G&B Construction NY Corp., Francisco Giron LLC and Franklin Mauricio Chuquiguanga — were not returned. The owner of SK Group Construction told Gothamist that the wage theft claims lodged against his business were untrue…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security last year announced new guidelines allowing migrant workers with wage theft claims to request “deferred action”…
Attorneys and immigrant rights advocates said the federal change is significant…
…SK Group Construction owner Sohail Khalid acknowledged that the three workers named in the complaint had worked for him until 2022, but rejected the allegation that he owed them more than $10,000 in back wages…