In a new twist on the labor problems bedeviling New Orleans, a group of guest workers from Latin America, brought in to maintain some of the city's hotels after Hurricane Katrina, filed a lawsuit yesterday complaining that they were being shortchanged by a prominent hotel executive and developer. Drawn to New Orleans by promises that they would work 40 hours a week plus overtime, the workers said, they are instead working as little as 10 hours a week for as little as $6.14 an hour, and, under the terms of their visas, cannot find other jobs.
See "Immigrants Hired After Storm Sue New Orleans Hotel Executive", Leslie Eaton, The New York Times, August 16, 2006