NY1 News — Last month, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed off on newly drawn lines for state legislative districts as part of a deal that would reform the redistricting process in 2022, but the plan is still in a state of legal limbo. NY1’s Bobby Cuza filed the following report.
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AOL/Huffington Post – If you’ve ever received a speedy $10 manicure, there’s a good chance that the woman who buffed your nails was paid less than minimum wage, denied overtime, and suffered emotional abuse. At least that’s what salon workers and attorneys claim in a spate of lawsuits.
The latest, ...
Village Voice — Some Chinatown property owners didn’t really want to be part of a Business Improvement District in the first place. Now a group of them are claiming that the city illegally charged them fees corresponding to months before the BID even officially existed.
The city told the Voice yest...
NY1 News – Some small property owners in Chinatown are calling themselves winners, after the city says it will return fees paid to the local business improvement district.
The Chinatown BID charged small businesses for the months between October 2011 and January 2012, but the Asian American Legal D...
New York Daily News – There’s a revolution afoot at your local nail salon.
Nepali immigrants who keep New Yorkers’ toes and fingers looking good are banding together to push for better working conditions.
More than 50 have joined a campaign by Queens nonprofit Adhikaar, which plans to conduct a ci...
DNAinfo – Chinatown property owners overcharged for a new neighborhood business improvement district will be refunded $300,000 in tax credits, BID officials and the Department of Finance confirmed Monday.
Some property owners and residents said last month that fees collected by the Department of Fi...
NY 1 News — A Queens man is suing his former employer for thousands of dollars of wages he says he’s owed, claiming at one point he was paid nothing at all for his work.
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New York Daily News – A Nepali kitchen assistant says his Long Island restaurant bosses made him live with other workers in an isolated basement room so he could toil for as many as 21 days in a row.
“It was hidden. It was behind the curtains. I was being exploited,” Rabin Kumar Biswokarma said on ...
Colorlines – In response to the slew of stories of the NYPD spying on just about anyone for no reason at all, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has launched a mass Freedom of Information Law campaign – GO FOIL YOURSELF – to help individuals find out if they have their own ...
Law Professors — AALDEF, together with pro bono counsel Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, is representing 22 former workers of Chinatown’s Jin Hua Restaurant, including waiters, waitresses, bussers, and dim sum workers, who had been denied minimum wage, overtime, and in some cases, their entire paycheck. B...
Colorlines — Over 100 civil rights, faith, community, and advocacy groups signed a letter sent on Monday urging the Department of Justice to commence a prompt investigation into the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim Americans in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. In a letter to U.S. At...
DNAinfo — Chinatown property owners and residents are fuming about an alleged bureaucratic breakdown over the controversial new Chinatown Business Improvement District that they claim has stuck some of them with several thousand dollars in unexpected fees.
The city’s Department of Finance recently ...
The Epoch Times – On the state level, a redistricting frenzy is winding down, with some grumblings of discontent. On Monday, a three-judge federal court panel signed into law Congressional lines drawn by Judge Roanne Mann after the state Legislature failed to agree on a plan.
On Thursday, Gov. Andr...
Bloomberg BNA — The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund during the month of February reached three settlement agreements in cases involving the pay and working conditions of low-wage immigrant workers in New York and New Jersey, AALDEF announced March 1.
AALDEF Feb. 28 reached a priva...
Queens Chronicle — Queens’ political landscape could dramatically change under a federal judge’s proposal issued this week for new Congressional district lines, which would obliterate U.S. Rep. Bob Turner’s district, representing much of South Queens, as well as parts of the Rockaways and Brooklyn, ...
Hyphen Magazine — Muslim
Americans in New York routinely work with the New York Police Department, providing them with tips, reporting suspicious behavior, and welcoming officers in their midst.
In exchange, the NYPD sets up a massive clandestine intelligence network, spies on and monitors Muslim ...
Wisconsin Gazette - A national LGBT civil rights group is urging New York’s appeals court to uphold the a lower court ruling that the New York Human Rights Law protects public school students against discrimination and harassment…
Village Voice – Asian Americans in New York City may actually have the voting power they deserve in Congress if the lines drawn this week by a judge become reality, advocates said today.
If you haven’t been following the redistricting drama closely, here’s what you need to know: Since state legisla...
Philadelphia Inquirer – Pennsylvania’s new voter-ID requirements threaten to disenfranchise a significant number of Asian Americans, particularly immigrant citizens without a solid command of English, leaders of Asian American..
The Progressive (Op-ed) – Beware the “model minority” stereotype about Asian-Americans. The Pew Center recently issued “The Rise of Asian-Americans,” stressing that they have the highest income and..
