{"id":269,"date":"2023-11-05T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=269"},"modified":"2023-11-24T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T13:59:49","slug":"immigrant-workers-in-new-york-city-are-getting-their-own-bill-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/11\/05\/immigrant-workers-in-new-york-city-are-getting-their-own-bill-of-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant workers in New York City are getting their own bill of rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/immigrant-workers-in-new-york-city-are-getting-their-own-bill-of-rights\">Gothamist<\/a> &#8211; Looking to crack down on wage theft and other forms of exploitation, the City Council passed legislation on last week creating an Immigrant Workers Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Councilmember Shahana Hanif, who authored&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5725252&amp;GUID=6CFBB7F1-1D5A-474B-878A-37484592207F&amp;Options=ID%7cText%7c&amp;Search=0569-2022\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the bill<\/a>, said the measure was partly designed to protect asylum-seekers who have received their work papers and are now entering the city\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLabor laws exist on our books to protect all of our workers, including new arrivals and more established immigrants,\u201d said Hanif in a statement. \u201cThis Bill of Rights will go a long way to ensuring they are followed.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/immigrant-workers-in-new-york-city-are-getting-their-own-bill-of-rights\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/immigrant-workers-in-new-york-city-are-getting-their-own-bill-of-rights\">Gothamist<\/a> &#8211; Looking to crack down on wage theft and other forms of exploitation, the City Council passed legislation on last week creating an Immigrant Workers Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Shahana Hanif, who authored&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5725252&amp;GUID=6CFBB7F1-1D5A-474B-878A-37484592207F&amp;Options=ID%7cText%7c&amp;Search=0569-2022\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the bill<\/a>, said the measure was partly designed to protect asylum-seekers who have received their work papers and are now entering the city\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/11\/05\/immigrant-workers-in-new-york-city-are-getting-their-own-bill-of-rights\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}