AGENCY TESTIMONY
Introduction and overview of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection
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Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga introduces herself and provides an overview of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP). She highlights the department's role in protecting consumers and workers, as well as providing financial empowerment programming.
- DCWP has helped deliver almost $1 billion to New Yorkers through various initiatives
- The department aims to protect New Yorkers in both the marketplace and workplace
- DCWP strives to ensure consumers have recourse and workers have a defender of their rights
Vilda Vera Mayuga
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GOOD MORNING, CHERMENNING AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AND WORKER PROTECTION I am Vildaviramayuga, commissioner of the Department of Consumer And Worker Protection, DCWP.
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I am joined by a deputy general counsel, Melisa Eichan, and our assistant commissioner for external affairs, Carlos Ortiz.
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Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on introduction 991 relating to the licensing of hotels in New York City.
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DCWP provides fundamental consumer and worker protections.
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Financial empowerment programming to New Yorkers as well.
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We strive to ensure that consumers who have been deceived or exploited have recourse that workers have a passionate defender of their rights.
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And that all New Yorkers have the support they need to improve their financial health.
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We remain steadfast in our goal of protecting New Yorkers in the marketplace and in the workplace.
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And under my tenure, we have helped deliver almost $1,000,000,000 to New Yorkers through restitution, financial empowerment, and new protections for essential workers.
