Two years ago the president issued an executive order that raised the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for private sector workers who provide federal government services (such as food or janitorial work) or construction (a new federal building).
The campaign, "We Can Help," uses public-service announcements, a Web site and a phone hot line to encourage workers — particularly those in construction, janitorial fields, hotels, food services and home health care — to report employer abuses.
That can range from actual construction to janitorial work or landscaping.
In addition to providing janitorial services, Sabree specializes in construction, renovations and concrete work.
Native communities have set up scores of companies and joint ventures with outside companies that are providing the new diamond mines with janitorial and catering services, road construction and maintenance, trucking services and security.
It is a popular misconception that immigrants are overwhelmingly concentrated in construction, food service, janitorial, or other low-wage jobs.
At least $31 billion (and as much as $60 billion or more) of that $2 trillion was lost to waste and fraud by military contractors, who do everything from janitorial and food service work to construction, security and intelligence -- jobs that used to be handled by the military.
Victims have been found in, and freed from, slave-like conditions in nearly every industry: agriculture, manufacturing, construction, hospitality, health care, janitorial services, mining, fishing, domestic service, as well as commercial sex.
Within sight of the stadium are manufacturing plants making ladders and flooring, a warehouse selling construction equipment and another selling soap and janitorial supplies.
She said the state planned more sweeps that would look at not just the construction and restaurant industries, but also at car washes, janitorial firms and trucking companies.
