Labor and Immigrants and Injuries, Oh My!

Building the Empire State Building This piece is about the importance of New York’s Labor Law for people who work at heights, but it starts in faraway Boston. It starts there because the story from the Boston Globe is shocking, and it should wake folks up to what goes on behind the scenes. The basic story is simple enough: Jose Martin Paz Flores had a job taping drywall for Tara Construction. He fell off a ladder and broke his femur in March 2017. The injury required immediate surgery. “But Paz — a father of five — could not get compensation for that injury because the company’s workers’ compensation insurance policy had lapsed.” What to do? The owner of Tara Construction, Pedro Pirez, decided to make …