Denver Law Seeks to Protect Day Laborers

In an effort to protect largely immigrant day laborers from fraud, Denver has become the third city in the country to make nonpayment of wages a crime. It’s part of an effort by labor advocates to protect laborers from being shortchanged by employers and, hopefully, to raise pay across the board by preventing employers from cutting corners on temporary hiring. For an LA Times article on the new law, see http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-wages3jan03,0,1484688.story?coll=la-home-nation

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