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Immigrant workers are helping investigate labor abuses. Will Trump let them stay?

5:00am January 15, 2025

Under Biden, thousands of workers who experienced wage theft and other abuses have been granted protection from deportation and authorization to work so they can participate in labor investigations.

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In a class-action lawsuit, McDonald's workers in California accused the fast-food chain of failing to pay them overtime and other wages.

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McDonald's Agrees To Pay $26 Million To Settle Accusations Of Wage Theft

12:13pm November 25, 2019

by Alina Selyukh

In a class-action lawsuit, workers in California accused the fast-food chain of failing to pay them overtime and other wages.

Attorneys, from left, David Seligman, Nina DiSalvo and Alexander Hood of Denver's Towards Justice, which filed a lawsuit on behalf of au pairs for higher pay.

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Au Pair Sponsor Agencies Settle Wage Lawsuit, Offer $65.5 Million In Back Pay

11:01pm January 09, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

The complaint alleged 15 companies, who at the time controlled 100 percent of the au pair workforce, colluded to keep wages artificially low and denied the workers overtime pay.