09/30/13 - Monday’s Topical Currents examines the issue of wage-theft, particularly among low income and day workers. But unpaid wages are a widespread problem within other Florida industries, including tourism, retail trade and construction. Many cases go unreported by workers who can least afford to be shorted. We’ll have panel of regional experts . . . and take your calls. That’s Topical Currents . . . Monday at 1pm on WLRN.
- Guests/links:
- Wage Theft Claims, Miami-Dade Consumer Service: 305-375-3677
- http://www.miamidade.gov/business/wage-theft.asp
- Cynthia S Hernandez, Senior Research Associate, Instructor & Director of Internship Programs Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy Center for Labor Research & Studies Florida International University www.risep-fiu.org
- Jeanette Smith Executive Director South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice Member of the Wage Theft Task Force www.sfiwj.org
- Donna M. Ballman, P.A. Employment Attorney www.ballmanfirm.com
Jeanette Smith, Executive Director of South Florida Interstate Worker Justice from Jeff Reiter on Vimeo.