In recent years, low-paid workers around the country have filed a growing number of lawsuits seeking back wages from bosses they say failed to pay the minimum wage or overtime. The complaints cover a wide range of industries, but most share a common trait: They involve immigrants who have become bolder about going to court to demand their proper pay, regardless of their legal status. And the increase might not be due to more violations, but to more attorneys specializing in wage and overtime disputes.
May 29, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Danger and exhaustion came with the job in the decade Chen Tianyun spent as a restaurant delivery man in Manhattan.
Traffic threatened to squash his scooter like a dumpling. He survived an armed robbery. Most weeks, he toiled 70 hours so he could send money to his family in China.
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