Jack Raisner explains why greater legal and legislative protections are needed for struggling retail workers

Raisner Roupinian’s Jack Raisner was quoted in Yahoo Finance on the subject of retail worker protection in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The employees’ trouble offers a sense of what might be coming for many struggling retailers. Stores are failing fast, leaving workers in many cases with no alternative but to lobby for compensation from owners, even as they push for broader legal and legislative protections, said Jack Raisner, a lawyer who often represents workers, including in the Art Van case. “

This is a welling grass-roots movement,” he said. In March, U.S. employment in the retail business fell by around 46,000 jobs, according to a government report this month.

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