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Low-income workers in Nassau face loss of pay increase
Quick ReadThe increase that could be delayed six months would raise the hourly wage from $11.50 to $12.50.
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Ofelia Rivera is one of many health care workers in Nassau County who may not get a $1 an hour raise promised under living-wage legislation. The home health-care industry is fighting it. (July 14, 2010)
Thousands of low-income workers providing home care and other social services in Nassau County face the loss of a promised $1-per-hour pay increase Aug. 1 under a bill that would delay the hike for at least six months.
"Dammit! It's just not right!" John Durso, head of the Long Island Federation of Labor, told members of the Nassau County Legislature Monday night, slamming his fist on the...
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