{"id":917,"date":"2025-05-26T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdm.lebuinco.com\/?post_type=press&#038;p=917"},"modified":"2025-05-26T19:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:38:32","slug":"press-release-workers-file-suit-against-the-u-s-department-of-labor-in-fight-for-just-wages","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/cdm.lebuinco.com\/es\/press\/press-release-workers-file-suit-against-the-u-s-department-of-labor-in-fight-for-just-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: Workers file suit against the U.S. Department Of Labor in Fight for Just Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>December 11, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Workers file suit against the U.S. Department Of Labor&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>in Fight for Just Wages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BALTIMORE, MD\u2013&nbsp;<\/strong>Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc., and allies filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania today against the Department of Labor (DOL) to ensure that migrant workers receive fair payment of wages.&nbsp; This past spring DOL began to notify employers that they were required to pay market rate wages to workers with H-2B visas.&nbsp; DOL recently reversed its policy and decided that employers are allowed to pay migrant workers with H-2B visas wages below the market value for work performed in 2013.&nbsp; The lawsuit challenges this&nbsp;abrupt&nbsp;change in policy which affects more than 50,000 workers who came to the U.S. on H-2B visas to be employed in jobs in landscaping, construction, and other industries. &nbsp;The individual plaintiffs in this case worked in forestry and landscaping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CDM filed this lawsuit with co-counsel Edward Tuddenham, Friends of Farmworkers, Inc., the Southern Poverty Law Center, Northwest Workers\u2019 Justice Project, and Florida Legal Services, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarah Karpovich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(410) 783-0236; skarp@cdmigrante.org<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-917","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdm.lebuinco.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdm.lebuinco.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdm.lebuinco.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdm.lebuinco.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}