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![]() ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- "State Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith
says her agency has found widespread violations of labor law at Saratoga Race Course. The labor department investigation discovered minimum wage, overtime and record keeping violations. Smith says the probe showed thousands of dollars in wages have gone unpaid. Details of the violations are scheduled to be released at a press conference Wednesday." http://www.labor.state.ny.us/
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![]() Just wonderful....
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![]() "The state Labor Department said Tuesday that horse trainers at Saratoga Race Course are engaged in "widespread violations of labor law," including not paying backstretch workers minimum wage and overtime, and keeping poor records."http://timesunion.com/AspStories/sto...egory=SARATOGA |
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![]() Haven't read the actual state report, however, this may in fact have more to do with individual trainers than it has to do with NYRA -- for that matter, perhaps everything.
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The e-mail from Rosales did not identify what employers were implicated, but a person close to the case said the investigation focused on private horse trainers, not the New York Racing Association. per the article posted by Travis.
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![]() I would like to know who the hell is actually surprised that these people are underpaid...
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*thud* |
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the backstretch, along with a lot of other employers, are hurting for workers as a lot of people aren't filing for migrant visas--the numbers aren't as high as in years' past for people coming here to work. i can't help wondering if there is a correlation between our current economic problems and the witchhunt mentality we've had for the last year or so regarding foreign workers. people won't come here if they are made to feel unwanted, and then employers can't fill vacancies. so then they have to hike their offered wages to try to attract people, raising their prices at the same time-which drives up inflation. and that's exactly what we're experiencing right now.
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but there are h2-a and h2-b programs for foreign workers to be able to get work here for a specified amount of time. as for my comment on the 'witchhunt mentality'....i meant that in regards to the fact that many automatically assume that if someone looks mexican, well by god they must be here illegally. a lot of assuming going on as to who belongs here, and who doesn't.
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