Day laborers hired to clean office buildings surrounding the World Trade Center by a subcontractor to a New York cleaning company, are alleging that they have not been paid for what in some cases has been up to two weeks of work. The workers, many of whom may be illegal immigrants who do not have any contract with the company they have been hired to work for, say they were promised $7.50 an hour for eight or twelve hour shifts but have yet be paid. When questioned by the state attorney general's office, the cleaning company directed investigators to the subcontractor, who has stated that paper work caused the delay in payments to the workers.
See "Day Laborers at Ground Zero Say They Are Not Being Paid", SOMINI SENGUPTA, The New York Times, October 18, 2001