Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Advanced Care Staffing Recruited Nurses from Abroad and Subjected Them to Exploitative Contracts 71 Former Nurses Who Were Forced to Pay Illegal Fees Will Receive Restitution NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured more than $660,000 for foreign-born nurses who were subjected to illegal labor trafficking […]
By:Amir Khafagy On Thursday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced the indictment of Kendis Paul, 45, and his company KEP Construction LLC for stealing approximately $67,000 from 10 former immigrant workers. The indictment comes after the Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) first brought the case to light early last year. Since then, the WJP has assisted […]
By Esther Claudette Gittens Undocumented women in the United States face unique vulnerabilities that often expose them to exploitation. Among these risks is a pattern of abuse in which sex predators exploit their undocumented status by entering into manipulative marriages, not for love but as a means of control. These predators exploit the woman’s dependence […]
Director General of the OECS, Dr. Didacus Jules has emphasized the critical need for the people of the OECS to be financially literate. He made the remarks as the OECS Commission launched the results of a Financial Literacy and Financial Inclusion (FLFI) survey. The survey came out of a World Bank funded Caribbean Digital Transformation […]