The Community of Friends in Action offers a wide range of assistance to the workers in our area. Our Social Services coordinator, Angelica Martinez, lives in Palisades Park and knows many members of the community well. Through her CoFiA learns of the difficulties they have trying to succeed in this country, where they often experience difficulties in employment, finances, housing, health and other issues. One of the ways we help is to track down employers who much too often cheat the workers by not paying what they agreed to. Sometimes this is through ignorance--homeowners may feel that payment well below the minimum wage is acceptable because the workers are not part of an organized group. But too often wage theft is deliberate, and the employer will take every avenue possible to avoid making the payment. Our ... Read more