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Alderperson Jorge Defendini said the law will help workers advocate for more equitable pay.

New York could become the next state to require employers to disclose information about pay and benefits in job listings and to their current employees.

The jobs come with benefits and pay is higher than what many private home health agencies offer. But the county hasn’t gotten many applicants yet.

"We (should) take care of our workers, give them what they need, but give the farmers, perhaps tax relief, to ameliorate the impacts.”

"That position has never been funded to the degree that it should be."

“Some workers have worked like this for more than 20 years. They deserve time with their family. They deserve to rest. They deserve this extra time for them.”

Large and medium businesses must pay their employees if they are out because of their own illness, or to care for sick family member.

When some fast-food workers in New York went on strike one morning in 2012, they had no idea it was the beginning of an unusual movement that would propel an economic revolution.

While it is technically illegal to base compensation on gender, Pennsylvania women still make an average of around 79 cents for every dollar a man does.