March 3, 2010 - The owner of several downtown New York boutiques was arrested recently and faces four years in jail as well as civil lawsuits for up to $1.5 million. Read more.

February 26, 2010 - The White House is looking at a new policy that would give an advantage in bidding on government contracts to companies that offer generous benefits and good pay. Read more.

February 25, 2010 - Wage-thieving employers, beware: the owner of a New York boutique chain accused of shorting workers by $1.5 million was taken away in handcuffs Tuesday. Read more.

February 25, 2010 - The Obama administration is planning to use the government’s enormous buying power to prod private companies to improve wages and benefits for millions of workers, according to White House officials and several interest groups briefed on the plan. Read more.

February 24, 2010 - Has the recession spawned a new set of bosses from hell? New York City retail owner David Cohen, who sells fast fashion at his seven-store Mystique boutique chain, has allegedly been even faster at pulling the slip on his employees. Read more.

February 24, 2010 - A retailer who owned Mistique Boutique and six other stores in New York City was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly paying his employees less than legal wages, faking tax returns, and obstructing investigation into his case. Read more.

February 24, 2010 - David Cohen, owner of seven clothing stores in Manhattan, has been arrested for allegedly failing to pay his employees proper legal wages, falsifying tax and business records and “trying to impede the attorney general’s investigation,” New York State Atto Read more.

February 24, 2010 - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is more fashion savvy than we thought. Read more.

February 23, 2010 - The owner of seven budget clothing stores in Lower Manhattan was arrested on charges of underpaying his workers and falsifying business records, Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo said. Read more.

February 23, 2010 - The owner of a chain of chic downtown boutiques was fitted for a pair of handcuffs today. Read more.

February 23, 2010 - Mystique Boutique owner faces jail time and big monetary damages for allegedly underpaying workers' hourly wages and neglecting to pay overtime. Read more.

February 23, 2010 - Three weeks ago, hundreds of disgruntled New York workers braved the cold weather to march 20 blocks in protest of unfair wage practices. Read more.

February 23, 2010 - David Cohen, the owner of seven popular clothing stores in New York City, has been arrested for allegedly failing to pay his employees proper legal wages, falsifying tax and business records, and trying to impede the Attorney General’s investigation into Read more.

February 19, 2010 - There are thousands of fashion victims in New York City, but not due to a lack of style. Rather, these are the low-wage workers in the fashion industry who stock, cashier and provide security at high-end fashion stores. Read more.

February 10, 2010 - For the second time in as many days, Comptroller John Liu has announced plans to revamp a process related to real estate development. Read more.

February 10, 2010 - The stretch of Broadway in Soho is best known for its retail. But for a group of labor activists, it is also a hotbed of union organizing. Read more.

February 9, 2010 - Wage justice has long been the signature issue of labor lawyer M. Patricia Smith, and that is exactly what so spooked the Right when President Obama proposed her last year as top attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor. For nine months, Republicans bloc Read more.

February 5, 2010 - GREENWICH VILLAGE — Retail workers, activists and politicians turned out in droves to protest neighborhood business chains that are selling pricey top-named brands but aren’t paying employees fair wages. Read more.

February 4, 2010 - The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union's Retail Action Project sponsored a march this week through New York City's trendy SoHo neighborhood, calling for an end to the wage and hour violations that plague the area. Read more.

February 4, 2010 - About 50 retail workers and organizers and their supporters rallied in NoHo late Wednesday afternoon to decry alleged unfair labor practices at Manhattan retailers Shoe Mania and Mystique Boutique. Read more.

February 4, 2010 - Press TV covers the March of Hearts Read more.

February 3, 2010 - Footwear retailer Shoe Mania and clothing store Mystique Boutique have been accused by current and former employees of unfair labor practices in SoHo. Read more.

February 2, 2010 - The heat is on NYC employers who think they can violate labor rights laws with impunity, as the New York Times, Crain's NY, and In These Times brought attention to the January report from the National Employment Law Project that more than half of NYC's lo Read more.

February 2, 2010 - Many employment and labor laws are regularly and systematically violated in New York City. That's according to a new report co-authored by Annette Bernhardt, policy co-director at the National Employment Law Project. Read more.

January 29, 2010 - If you're one of about 317,000 unlucky New Yorkers, there's a good chance your boss screwed you this week. The average low-wage worker in the city loses approximately $58 a week—a total loss of more than $3,000 a year—thanks to employers who see cheating Read more.

January 28, 2010 - More than half of the low-wage workers in New York City are routinely being cheated of some of the meager pay that is due them, according to a report to be released on Thursday by the National Employment Law Project. Read more.

January 28, 2010 - Study finds low-income workers lose almost 15% of their earnings due to employers failing to pay required minimum wage, overtime and other protections. Read more.

January 27, 2010 - Wage theft continues to be a major issue in the United States even with increasing pressure being placed on employers. Read more.

January 11, 2010 - British historian E.H. Carr once said something to the effect that while no serious scholar makes up the facts, they all choose which facts “to put on stage.” Read more.

July 9, 2009 - Fired workers from Scoop NYC gathered outside the trendy retail store in SoHo to protest against numerous labor violations. Read more.

July 8, 2009 - Silent mannequins wore designer jeans and expensive dresses inside the display windows of Scoop NYC’s SoHo location, but the chanting crowd outside the store on July 8 mostly wore t-shirts with workers union and activist logos. Read more.

July 7, 2009 - Former employees to file suit Wednesday, alleging trendy clothing mini-chain awarded bogus promotions to avoid paying overtime; seek $500,000 in lost wages. Read more.

February 21, 2008 - The owner of Yellow Rat Bastard really was a bastard for the way he treated his employees, according to a settlement brokered last month by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Read more.

February 12, 2008 - Yellow Rat Bastard, a trendy apparel retailer based in SoHo, has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a lawsuit over unpaid wages and overtime, the state attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, announced on Monday. Read more.

January 8, 2007 - In one of his final actions as the New York State attorney general, Eliot Spitzer filed two lawsuits against New York City downtown retailer Yellow Rat Bastard and its 10 affiliated stores for labor-law violations. Read more.

December 30, 2006 - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday accused Yellow Rat Bastard, a trendy clothier in SoHo, of living up to its name: he claimed in a lawsuit that it and 10 affiliates had cheated their workers out of more than $1 million. Read more.

December 30, 2006 - The millionaire owner of chain store Yellow Rat Bastard is living up to his company name, stiffing workers out of the minimum wage and hushing it up by paying them off the books, authorities said yesterday. Read more.

December 29, 2006 - The state is suing a group of stores affiliated with a popular Manhattan clothing retailer, Yellow Rat Bastard, claiming they violated labor laws and retaliated against employees who complained to authorities. Read more.

October 27, 2006 - The owner of the Yellow Rat Bastard retail franchise is accused of living up to his brand name. Read more.