(Editor’s Note: The following open letter to workers regarding their rights is published here at the request of the City Comptroller’s Office.)
Dear New Yorker: As many of you may know, my office enforces state and local prevailing-wage laws. That means that if you have done construction work on a New York City public-work project or have been employed in a building-service job through a city contract or in a building with an affordable-housing property tax exemption, then you may be entitled to prevailing wages and benefits, regardless of your immigration status.
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