In some sense, the Department of Labor is there to serve as backstop, because individual workers who might be stiffed for their overtime, who might be placed in an independent contractor position, they need somebody to be on their side.
Leger Fernandez argues that the Department of Labor should protect individual workers' rights.
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We have a law that needs to be addressed, and we have a migrant issue that needs to be addressed.
We need to not be worried about change but say some change needs to be welcomed and brought in.
We are peeling back the layers of what happened to the tribes, and how we reacquire the land is going to take an awareness and acknowledgement of those things.
H.R. 5015, Seedlings for Sustainable Habitat Restoration sponsored by Representative Leger Fernandez, will help.
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