Building Bridges Radio: Enforcing the NYS Minimum Wage Law

WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW <!--break--> Building Bridges: Your Community &amp;amp; Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg &amp;amp; Ken Nash ************************************************** Enforcing the Minimum Wage Law M. Patricia Smith, Acting NYS Labor Commissioner Chung-Wha Hong, Exec. Dir., NY Immigration Coalition The NYS minimum wage increased to $7.15/hr. on Jan.1, 2007. In the past, when the minimum wage increased, a majority of workers didn’t know that they were entitled to a raise and many employers ignored the law. But now, the NYS Labor Department has begun a public awareness campaign to educate low-income workers about their rights and businesses about the penalties breaking the law.The Department is also increasing enforcement by hiring more bilingual investigators. Also, random sweeps will be conducted in industries that traditionally employ immigrants and low-income workers to ensure they are being paid the correct wages. ****************************************************** To Download or listen to this 27:46 minute program, go to http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=21821 For more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and streamed,archived and podcast at www.wbai.org Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: WVJW- Benwood, WV KRFP, Moscow, ID KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA WXOJ, Northampton, MA KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon WKNH ,Keene, NH CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado WRPI, Troy, New York WNRB, Wausau, WI KRBS, Oroville, CA Radio Veronica,West Point, PA WHLD, Buffalo, NY Radio Free Olympia,Olympia,WA KQRP Salida, California WZBC, Newton, Mass East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA as well as internet stations: The Journey Radio WXXE Seattle Radical Radio Radio for Peace International Radio Labourstart American FM.org ============================================================= For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to www.buildingbridgesradio.org

<p>WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW</p> <!--break--><p>Building Bridges: Your Community &amp;amp; Labor Report<br /> National Edition<br /> Produced by Mimi Rosenberg &amp;amp; Ken Nash<br /> **************************************************<br /> Enforcing the Minimum Wage Law<br /> M. Patricia Smith, Acting NYS Labor Commissioner<br /> Chung-Wha Hong, Exec. Dir., NY Immigration Coalition</p> <p>The NYS minimum wage increased to $7.15/hr. on Jan.1, 2007. In the past, when the minimum wage increased, a majority of workers didn’t know that they were entitled to a raise and many employers ignored the law. But now, the NYS Labor Department has begun a public awareness campaign to educate low-income workers about their rights and businesses about the penalties breaking the law.The Department is also increasing enforcement<br /> by hiring more bilingual investigators. Also, random sweeps will be conducted in industries that traditionally employ immigrants and low-income workers to ensure they are being paid the<br /> correct wages.<br /> ******************************************************<br /> To Download or listen to this 27:46 minute program,<br /> go to <a href="http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=21821">http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=21821</a> </p> <p>For more information contact Ken Nash - <a href="mailto:knash@igc.org">knash@igc.org</a> </p> <p>Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI,<br /> 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from<br /> 7-8pm EST and streamed,archived and podcast at<br /> <a href="http://www.wbai.org">www.wbai.org</a> </p> <p>Building Bridges National Edition<br /> is regularly broadcast over: </p> <p>WVJW- Benwood, WV<br /> KRFP, Moscow, ID<br /> KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA<br /> WXOJ, Northampton, MA<br /> KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon<br /> WKNH ,Keene, NH<br /> CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada<br /> KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado<br /> WRPI, Troy, New York<br /> WNRB, Wausau, WI<br /> KRBS, Oroville, CA<br /> Radio Veronica,West Point, PA<br /> WHLD, Buffalo, NY<br /> Radio Free Olympia,Olympia,WA<br /> KQRP Salida, California<br /> WZBC, Newton, Mass<br /> East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA</p> <p>as well as internet stations: </p> <p>The Journey Radio<br /> WXXE<br /> Seattle Radical Radio<br /> Radio for Peace International<br /> Radio Labourstart<br /> American FM.org<br /> =============================================================<br /> For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to<br /> <a href="http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org">www.buildingbridgesradio.org</a></p>