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Title: New York, Combating Worker Abuse, Mandates Salon Owners to Secure Wage Bonds Source: NY Times

*Author: *Ileana Najarro Date: Aug 10, 201*5*

*Summary: *The requirement is the latest in a series of reforms the governor has introduced http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/nyregion/benefits-and-some-resistance-as-new-york-cracks-down-on-nail-salon-abuses.html to address worker abuse and exploitation in nail salons after The New York Times published a two-part investigation http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/nyregion/at-nail-salons-in-nyc-manicurists-are-underpaid-and-unprotected.html on the industry in May. Link: nyti.ms/1f3vuk9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library