Immigrant workers are susceptible to abuse by unscrupulous employers.
We want to make it clear that the state's employment laws protect all Massachusetts workers, regardless of where they come from. If you do a day's work, you'll get a day's pay. Attorney General Reilly recently launched an Immigrant Worker Outreach Project, which is an initiative aimed at protecting working immigrants in the Commonwealth. The project involves outreach and education to immigrant communities, translating informational pamphlets into foreign languages, and prioritizing the prosecution of employers who commit civil and criminal wrongs against immigrants. The case arose from complaints filed by three members of the Carpenters' Union who were not paid overtime for work performed on a construction project in Cambridge.