Posts tagged Working America

    NY sisters who own DQ franchise hit with $6M lawsuit for paying workers every 2 weeks — they helped change the loophole but it was too late for them

    October 10, 2025 // New York's Frequency of Pay law (2) requires “manual workers” to receive their pay on a weekly basis. It’s a law that the sisters said they’d never heard of, which is why they paid their employees biweekly — a process that they said was never flagged by anyone, including during an audit conducted by the state’s Department of Labor. Robey told CBS that the lawsuit was “ridiculous,” adding, “we knew we paid every employee every dime that they were owed." But her sister noted that the former employee, who’d been laid off, “would say all the time, 'I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you,' and she did.”

    Who is going door to door in Norcross?

    May 12, 2023 // The canvassing operations are scheduled to take place mostly during the late afternoon and evening, ending by 8 p.m. The organization is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, a national trade union center representing 12.5 million working Americans. There are a total of about 153 million working Americans. The AFL-CIO represents 8.17% of American workers.