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Advocates urge council to double DCWP budget, baseline legal‑services funding
Summary
Dozens of worker groups, legal‑aid providers and unions urged the council to restore and expand funding for DCWP and community legal partners, citing enforcement backlogs and requests to baseline low‑wage worker support and new vendor/worker initiatives.
Dozens of witnesses from labor, legal services and community organizations told the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection that DCWP needs more staff and recurring community funding to make new laws meaningful.
Witnesses from the Legal Aid Society, Make the Road New York, the Worker Justice Project and other groups said the city's enforcement agency has returned millions to workers but cannot keep pace with rising complaints and the implementation needs of recent legislation. Several…
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