A Phone App Helps Day Laborers Attack Wage Theft (nytimes.com)

An anonymous reader writes with this story from the New York Times, excerpting "After three years of planning, an immigrant rights group in Jackson Heights is set to start a smartphone app for day laborers, a new digital tool with many uses: Workers will be able to rate employers (think Yelp or Uber), log their hours and wages, take pictures of job sites and help identify, down to the color and make of a car, employers with a history of withholding wages. They will also be able to send instant alerts to other workers. The advocacy group will safeguard the information and work with lawyers to negotiate payment." Adds the submitter: "Although I completely support the app, personally, I see this encountering some significant legal challenges. Hope they've lawyered up." Though the use case is different, this is similar in spirit to "cop watch" apps, like Cell411 and the ACLU's Mobile Justice. (And of course there's Periscope.)

Comments

Trump is winning here, too

[Anonymous Coward]

Early reports show Donald Trump is in the lead for the most number of reports from this app.

One of these things is not like the other

[Quarters]

"Adds the submitter...(And of course there's Periscope)"

Which is a tool 100% unlike either the app the NY Times is writing about or the other two apps the submitter referenced. So while yes, there is Periscope, it is not germane to this discussion.

Takers!

[Ol Olsoc]

Those damn takers are at it again. The Job creators need your wages. Goddamned socialists!