Mr. Polsinello has had a distinguished 36-year career at the helm of the Division of Labor Standards of New York State's Department of Labor. He was responsible for the administration and enforcement of all labor laws, including those regulating work hours, minimum wage, wage payments and supplements, pay equity, child labor and migrant farm labor.

He established New York City's Apparel Industry Task Force, the first and much-emulated enforcement unit to successfully disrupt and decrease sweatshop operations in NYC. He trained over 500 labor investigators and developed modern monitoring and reporting techniques, including the use of electronic tools. He has also been an expert witness before Congressional and New York State legislative committees. He co-founded and then served as President of the Interstate Labor Standards Association, a coalition of all state Labor Standards departments in the U.S.

Mr. Polsinello has also been a member and officer of the Organization of New York State Management Confidential Employees and a member of the Capital District Chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Association. He has most recently been an honored Delegate of the Trade Mission to China of the Asian American Tripartite Apparel Association. His migrant farm labor work has been recognized by Rural Opportunities Inc., which voted him into the Farmworker Advocates Hall of Fame.

He is a graduate of Syracuse University and has attended the Graduate School of Public Affairs and the Governor's Public Executive Institute in New York State.

As a private civic leader, Richard Polsinello is also the co-founder and a current Board member of Residents Encounter Christ, a prison ministry in the Albany, New York, area.

Ms. Beyer has been the Legal Projects Director and General Counsel of the historic National Child Labor Committee in New York City for 25 years. She has provided national and international child labor expertise, technical assistance, training programs and policy guidance to such clients as Burger King International, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Departments of Labor and Agriculture and the United Nations.

She is also a founding and current board member as well as the ongoing Chief Agricultural Labor Consultant, to Social Accountability International (SAI). Her wide training and experience in labor standards and policy were utilized in creating, advocating and representing SAI's landmark international corporate labor standard, known worldwide as SA (Social Accountability) 8000. She also serves on the Board of the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, designing and gaining consensus for a variety of labor and occupational health and safety policies and programs.

Ms. Beyer has been a member of the U.S. Department of Labor's blue ribbon Child Labor Advisory Group, served as a member of the U.S. Delegation to NAFTA's Special Office on child labor and has been its speaker at plenary sessions. She has published model laws and chaired New York State's Child Labor Law Advisory Committee, resulting in her public testimony to various state and Congressional legislative committees in Washington D.C., New York, California and Oregon.

Dorianne Beyer is a graduate of Cambridge University, Darwin College (LLM, International Law), Rutgers Law School (J.D.) and Hunter College of the City University of New York (B.A.).

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