{"id":155,"date":"2026-06-29T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/?p=155"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:54:33","slug":"opinion-new-york-passed-historic-worker-protection-laws-now-we-have-to-make-them-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/2026\/06\/29\/opinion-new-york-passed-historic-worker-protection-laws-now-we-have-to-make-them-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: New York Passed Historic Worker Protection Laws. Now We Have to Make Them Real."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/citylimits.org\/author\/harvey-epstein\/\"><\/a>City Limits \u2013\u2013<em>\u201cPassing a law is only the beginning. A right you can\u2019t access is not really a right. A protection you don\u2019t know exists cannot protect you. And a violation that never gets reported is unlikely to be enforced.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/citylimits.org\/opinion-new-york-passed-historic-worker-protection-laws-now-we-have-to-make-them-real\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citylimits.org\/author\/harvey-epstein\/\"><\/a>City Limits \u2013\u2013<em>\u201cPassing a law is only the beginning. A right you can\u2019t access is not really a right. A protection you don\u2019t know exists cannot protect you. And a violation that never gets reported is unlikely to be enforced.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citylimits.org\/opinion-new-york-passed-historic-worker-protection-laws-now-we-have-to-make-them-real\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}