Q: My girlfriend came here as a visitor from Europe under the ESTA program. I am a U.S. citizen. If she overstays and then we marry, can she nevertheless get her green card here? I understand that under the ESTA program, my girlfriend can stay here for up to 90 days, though she does not have a visa.
Immigrants who overstay can apply for green card if married to a citizen
Allan Wernick
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 06:00:21 GMT
On January 1, minimum wage workers in New York State saw an increase from $7.25 per hour to $8 per hour, but certain workers are getting left out in the cold.
Some Workers Left Out of State's Minimum Wage Hike
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NEW YORK — New York City is becoming the most populous place in the United States to make businesses provide workers with paid sick time, after lawmakers overrode a mayoral veto early Thursday to pass a law expected to affect more than 1 million workers.
With the vote, the city joined Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; Seattle; Washington, D.C.; and the state of Connecticut in requiring the benefit for at least some workers. Similar measures have failed in some other places, including Milwaukee, Denver and Philadelphia.
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The Taxi and Limousine Commission is cracking down on gypsy cabs and illegal dollar vans, and its enforcement team takes hundreds of unlicensed vehicles off the streets every month.
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Sources say the developing deal on the minimum wage would hike the state rate over three phases, something the Senate Republicans have been insistent on. According to one source, the most likely deal is increasing the current $7.25 an hour rate to $8.50 initially, and then to the $8.75 an ...
$9 An Hour New York State Minimum Wage On the Way?
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Here is the expanded version of my story from today's paper: Veterans who’ve returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan veterans will be able to use their military experience to qualify for plubming, electrical and other trade liceneses under a new bill in the City Council. Current law ...
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Major U.S. retailers Kohl’s and Target plan on making it a happy holiday for many folks around the country by hiring more than 100,000 holiday employees, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Although Target, one of America’s favorite department stores, plans to employ 80,000 to 90,000 seasonal workers to help with the holiday crowds, its numbers are actually down from last year’s hirings, which stood at a robust 92,000.
Kohl’s, the country’s 20th largest retailer, plans to increase its holiday temps by hiring 10 percent more than they did last year. Even though the Wisconsin-based retailer has been struggling sales-wise, they plan on adding at least 41 holiday hires per store across its 1,146 locations nationwide.
In addition to increasing its personnel at the retail level, Kohl’s expects to also fill 5,700 spots at its distribution centers and has created 30 openings at its credit operations.
Target may be hiring less holiday employees this year but the retailer states that at least 30 percent of its seasonal workers last year stayed the course with the company.
Kohl’s is already in the throes of its holiday-hiring campaign, which should run until about mid-November. Employees can choose to work from a few hours to more than 20 per week. Jobs at Kohl’s run-the-gamut, including sales, unloading trucks, freight processing, stocking, and cashiering.
Management consultants the Hay Group conducted a survey among retailers nationwide, and they discovered that 57 percent expect to hire about the same number of seasonal workers as last year. At least 43 percent of retailers plan to use more permanent workers this holiday season than seasonal ones, up from 19 percent a year ago.
Target, Kohl’s Are Hiring More Than 100,000 Seasonal Workers
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:10:23 GMT
Black People Are Still Jobless In New York As City Recovers From Recession
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For months now, New York officials have been highlighting how the city has regained all the jobs lost during the long recession and then some. But by several measures, the city’s recovery has left black New Yorkers behind. More than half of all of African-Americans and other non-Hispanic blacks in the city who were old enough to work had no job at all this year, according to an analysis of employment data compiled by the federal Labor Department. And when black New Yorkers lose their jobs, they spend a full year, on average, trying to find new jobs — far longer than New Yorkers of other races.
Nationally, the employment outlook for blacks has begun to brighten: there were about one million more black Americans with jobs in May than there were a year earlier, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But that is not the case in New York City, where the decline in employment since the recession began here, in 2008, has been much steeper for blacks than for white or Hispanic residents, said James Parrott, chief economist for the Fiscal Policy Institute, a liberal research group. One problem, said David R. Jones, the president and chief executive of the Community Service Society of New York, is that blacks were overrepresented in fields that suffered the most in the downturn, including government agencies, construction and manufacturing.
“It’s being in the wrong place in the economy, so the recovery is not trickling down to these workers,” Mr. Jones said. Kevin Starkes, 53, who is black and lives in the South Bronx, said he had been trying for about 10 weeks to find work as an accountant. “Employers are getting more for less,” said Mr. Starkes, who was at a Workforce1 Career Center in Harlem on Wednesday. “People who used to get a job with a bachelor’s degree now need a master’s. I just think that’s the state of the economy right now.” Four years ago, there were about the same number of discouraged blacks and whites in the city. But since then, the number of discouraged black workers has grown to almost 40,000, from about 13,000, while the number of discouraged whites increased to about 22,000, from about 12,000.
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Race Matters: Black People Are Still Jobless In New York As City Recovers From Recession
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East Harlem car wash workers confront owner over conditions and pay
A car wash kingpin is at the center of an East Harlem confrontation with dozens of disgruntled workers and advocates hoping to powerwash his dirty treatment of employees The group is hoping for a showdown Friday with mogul John Lage at LMC Car Wash on E. 109th St. and First Ave.
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