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Comptroller Stringer is urging the MTA to ensure that the contractors providing subway cleaning services are paying prevailing wages and benefits to their employees.
By Michael V. Cusenza
City Comptroller Scott Stringer recently sent a letter to Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman & CEO Patrick Foye urging the MTA to ensure that the contractors providing subway cleaning services are paying prevailing wages and benefits to their employees. Highlighting concerns that these workers are not being paid what they are owed under the law, Comptroller Stringer is already investigating one contractor for underpayment of prevailing wages on a cleaning contract for subway train interiors. Stringer informed the MTA of his determination that Labor Law Article Nine applies to the cleaning of trains as well as subway stations.
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