NY Immigrants Testify System Discriminatory

Newsday (New York, NY), a consistent critic of the New York Workers' Compensation Board, reported last week that hundreds of immigrant workers were organized for testimony before officials from Mexico and human rights groups regarding allegations that the state is improperly delaying and denying the compensation claims of immigrants injured and killed on the job. The paper had reported last year that their investigation revealed that New York has the nation's highest rate of immigrants killed on the job; that immigrant workers account for nearly one-third of all work fatalities in the state; a...