Councilmember Soto-Martinez said Los Angeles is known as the wage theft capital of the United States.
Ahead of Labor Day, Los Angeles City Council members on Friday, Sept. 1, introduced a package of motions designed to combat what they describe as a “pressing problem of wage theft in the city.”
Armando Gudino, L.A. Worker Center Network executive director, said he joined the council members to support and help their efforts to combat “one of L.A.’s most pressing challenges affecting global low-wage workers” —“As the City Council continues to work hard to address the systemic, challenging issues that make Los Angeles the homeless capital of the U.S.
Currently, different city departments are tasked with enforcing various types of employment violations, which can lead to uneven implementation, under-enforcement and additional hurdles for workers looking to file claims. To offer support for those particularly impacted groups, the councilmen will introduce a pair of resolutions supporting federal legislation.
“We really honored to be here in community to make sure that we’re moving forward on a slate of pieces of legislation to work with working families, and we see on Labor Day how far we’ve come,” McOsker said. “It’s also important for us to realize how far we need to make sure that everyone’s fairly paid.”
City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto echoed the council members’ sentiments in that wage theft in L.A. is staggering and takes different forms.
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