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...policies. More than two dozen city restaurants have been sued over the past year, and legal action has also been taken against restaurants in Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey and Rhode Island. "We have in our restaurant community a great many ethnic restaurants owned and operated by people for whom English is not their first language," says Chuck Hunt, Executive Vice President for the New York State Restaurant Association, "and perhaps the violations have not been fully explained...
...Immigrant workers are vulnerable to exploitation whether they're legal or illegal. They often don't speak English and they come from countries where the wages are very low, so even if they are making less than minimum wage, they're making more than they would be at home," Smith says. So they're reluctant to protest conditions set by employers. In May, the New York State Labor Department established the Bureau of Immigrant Workers' Rights to make sure immigrant workers aren't treated differently from those born in the United States...
...were. So why is it so hard to get through? Early suspicion falls on Carter's prose--his characters unblushingly utter lines like "You can't talk to me that way!" and "It's time for the lies to stop." (Of her deceased economist, Julia thinks--cue English horn--she "had not even said goodbye.") Plot "twists" arrive at the end of every chapter with metronomic regularity. A certain clockwork orderliness befits any work of this genre, but the relentlessness of the surprises becomes deeply unsurprising. New England White is being marketed as a literary beach book...
...line, Prada is introducing a new fuller shape, floral prints and a brightly colored soft leather bag. Chances are a variation on these looks will show up again on the label's spring runway. Prints are also an important trend at Louis Vuitton, where designer Marc Jacobs worked with English artist Pippa Cunningham to create travel-themed prints that playfully feature airplanes, anchors and motorboats...
...front pages of Chinese newspapers. Nevertheless, the subject is still a hot topic on Chinese websites, where much of criticism was directed at the authorities for failing to intervene to stop the human trafficking and enslavement of the brick kiln workers. Even in usually docile official publication like the English language China Daily, the sense of shock and outrage many Chinese felt on seeing footage and pictures of the dazed, sometimes bleeding workers being led out of the kilns was evident, even if relegated to op-ed pages...