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.
By Lisa McDivitt
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Next time a stupid disc jockey makes a joke about an Asian American’s accent or when someone goes to the buck-tooth “ah-so” route to describe an Asian immigrant, please don’t laugh and say, “Where’s your sense of humor, bud?”
Instead, remember our Asian American of the moment, One L. Goh.
Goh is t...
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 ...
A Nepali immigrant worker who was subjected to abuse, fraud, and egregious labor violations at the hands of his former employer, Long Island Indian fusion restaurant Masala Wok & Grill, announced the filing of his complaint against the restaurant and its owners, Shivaji Pathak and “Tony Malik” in ...
APRIL 2 PRESS CONFERENCE:
A South Asian immigrant worker from Queens who was subjected to abuse, fraud, and egregious labor violations at the hands of his former employer, a Long Island restaurant, will be speaking at a press conference on April 2 to announce the filing of his complaint against t...
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 ...
My dear mother hated broccoli. She was healthy without it. She lived among the hipsters in San Francisco’s SOMA district, only her perch was the senior housing at Clementina Towers. Mom never had much money. But boy, did she have health care.
“My health is my wealth,” she was fond of saying, and wh...
Are you being watched? From the recent AP reports, it’s clear that the NYPD kept hundreds of individual names and businesses on file without any suspicion of wrongdoing. Undercover informants recorded how many times Muslim students prayed, tracked which businesses Muslim immigrants frequented, and ...
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...
The District Court of the Southern District of New York ordered TYT East Corp., owner of the failed Jin Hua Restaurant, to pay unpaid wages and overtime to Jin Hua’s former staff of Asian immigrant workers. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), together with pro bono counsel...
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 Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) joined over 100 civil rights, faith, community, and advocacy groups in 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 Connec...
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...
My name is Bethany Li and I am an attorney at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). Founded in 1974, AALDEF is a national civil rights organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans. AALDEF focuses on many issues affecting Asian Americans, includ...
A three-judge panel has approved the new Congressional redistricting map for New York state in Favors v. Cuomo. This new Congressional Map will now determine the election districts for the upcoming 2012 Congressional elections.
“The new Congressional redistricting map is a significant achievement...
After the Dharun Ravi verdict, suddenly I’m nostalgic for the days when a noose was a noose, a hood was a hood, and a hate crime was a hate crime.
Was there ever a doubt in that grand old formula? Add one person of color. One protected minority. Voila. Justice.
We know how to fight all that.
But ...
On March 20, 2012, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), the Property Tax Payers’ Association, and small property owners in Chinatown will hold a press conference to protest the illegal and excessive fees that the New York City Department of Finance has charged small proper...
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, ...
