U.S. Job Fairs

Almost half of employees who complained about work-site conditions or tried to form a union reported experiencing retaliation.
Of workers injured on the job, only 4.3 percent reported filing claims for worker’s compensation over the last three years.
Workers’ legal status, race and sex had a clear impact on whether they were paid the legal rate, and no single demographic was treated as unfairly as female illegal immigrants.
54% of the illegal-immigrant women involved in the study were paid less than the minimum wage.
The employees shortchanged most often were restaurant, garment and car-wash workers, as well as janitors, home health-care workers and security guards. In fact, 60 percent of garment workers get less than the minimum wage, and a staggering 92.5 percent aren’t paid proper overtime.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/study-says-la-surpasses-nyc-chicago-in-wage-theft-02924.html

This is an Associated Press photo from the New York Times:

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The caption reads: "Graduates from Jinan University at a job fair in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, 2009."