Rachana Pathak has built a career fighting for New Yorkers who often live in the shadows, including undocumented workers.

“These are day laborers, these are construction workers, these are pizza workers who don’t have papers,” Pathak explained during an interview with NY1.

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A group of Manhattan prosecutors has been going after employers for cheating their workers out of their wages

Rachana Pathak, head of the Worker Protection Unit, says immigration enforcement fears may be keeping victims from coming forward

Many cases investigated by the unit begin with a phone call to their hotline, but Pathak says, recently, the phone just hasn’t been ringing

Since its creation in 2023, the unit has brought 11 prosecutions and recovered $1.3 million in stolen wages for more t

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