Massachusetts Holds Public Meeting about Law to Protect Temporary Workers
Temporary workers, advocates speak out about protecting vulnerable, low-wage workers.
For over six years, Mercedes Mendez worked 50- to 60-hour weeks at a Billerica packing company, but never received a penny of the thousands of dollars in overtime due to her. The temp agency that employed her laid responsibility on the packing company, claiming they didn’t pay the agency enough to foot the overtime, while the packing company argued it bore no responsibility for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime wages of the workers who labored at the plant.
