March 31, 2023
A staffing firm that specializes in recruiting Filipino nurses to come to the U.S. for work pays less than it promises and cannot enforce clauses that would require nurses to pay up to $90,000 in fees and leave the industry for years if they quit their jobs, a New York federal judge ruled.
August 25, 2022
A company accused of forcing foreign employees to work for substandard wages for years or else pay tens of thousands of dollars in liquidated damages urged a New York federal court Thursday not to grant a pre-trial victory on claims that its practices amounted to forced labor.