Gov. Paterson Signs Domestic Workers’ Rights Bill, NY Gives Illegals Worker Rights & Overtime Pay

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson 

Illegal aliens in Arizona who were deported to Mexico in July 2010, near the Nogales Port of Entry in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, via KTAR)

Translation: domestic worker = illegal alien.
From Associated Press, NY governor signs domestic worker rights bill:

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. David Paterson has signed into law the nation’s first extensive domestic workers’ rights measure, saying it corrects historic injustices.
The law will guarantee overtime pay for domestic workers, as well as time off and protections against sexual harassment.

There are an estimated 200,000 domestic workers in New York City. An advocacy groups claims there are frequent reports of spoken or physical abuse by employers, and two-thirds of the workers said they never received overtime pay.

Statewide, there are another 60,000 to 70,000 domestic workers, most of them female immigrants.

Paterson signed the measure Tuesday in Manhattan.

Sweetness & Light weighs in:

Now if only Mr. Paterson could correct the historic injustice of these people living here illegally and getting all of our country’s benefits without paying any of the costs.

More NYC lunacy, reported in May 2010 by New York Post:

An illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet got a $145,000 parting gift from New York City taxpayers before he was deported, after a federal judge ruled his civil rights had been violated when he was held too long on Rikers Island.

Federal rules allow local law enforcement to detain suspected illegal immigrants for 48 hours after their criminal cases are resolved, to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement a chance to pick them up and move them to federal facilities.

Former Brooklyn resident Cecil Harvey, 55 — backed by an immigration-rights advocacy group — argued that his rights were violated when he spent more than a month in a Rikers holding pen before being transferred to ICE.

Harvey was shipped to his native Barbados in October 2007; the city settled his civil suit late last year.

The landmark settlement has prompted the Correction Department to dump scores of illegal immigrants on the streets, since federal officials often fail to pick them up within the required two-day window.

It’s heartwarming to see that New York City no longer has an unemployment or deficit problem and can handsomely reward illegal aliens… way to go, Big Apple!