Toni Gonzaga Breaks Silence During The Broadcast She Surprised People & Left Them Speechless With The Latest Statement bathkitchenandtilesouth.com OPEN Xavier said these issues are not occurring on small home or business additions, but on multimillion-dollar construction sites. “The projects that I go out to every day and talk to these workers that are being exploited under this new model are happening on multi-unit residential properties. These are multimillion-dollar projects anywhere from a 30-unit building to a 300 multi-unit residential contract,” he said. “You don’t see many legitimate contractors being able to compete in a lot of the segments of this market unless you are cheating.” He said the new model involves larger companies bidding on a job, then hiring subcontractors who have a few employees on site. They also hire labor brokers who hire day laborers, often undocumented workers, and pay them in cash only. “The wages that these workers are making are definitely substandard. There are lower wages, there’s no health insurance, there’s no pension,” Xavier said. “Unfortunately, we’re fighting wages that my colleagues say 20 years ago they were fighting. The only thing that changes in the model is that the workers end up working more hours.” These workers do not get health insurance or overtime pay and often work in unsafe environments, an issue that became more prominent since the coronavirus pandemic began, he said. “We’re always out there on non-union job sites, trying to inform workers of the rights that they do have,” Xavier said. “(During the pandemic) we shifted to an informational campaign, so we started going out to all these different jobs and talking to workers, letting them know that these are the guidelines, these are the safety procedures that should be in place.” Lesser said it’s important to bring this issue to light.

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