Press Release  On Labor Day, AG Healey Announces New Leadership for the Office's Fair Labor Division

Boston — With a focus on strengthening worker protections across Massachusetts, Attorney General Maura Healey today announced new leadership for the office’s Fair Labor Division.

AG Healey has named Cynthia Mark as Chief of the Fair Labor Division, and Lauren Goldman as Deputy Chief.

“Our job is to make sure that workers across Massachusetts are protected. People who work hard should be able to provide for themselves and their families,” said AG Healey. “Cynthia and Lauren bring years of experience and a deep well of talent to the AG’s Office and I am excited to have them on board.”

Cynthia Mark will serve as Chief of the Fair Labor Division. Prior to her appointment, she worked for the last 10 years as the managing attorney of the Asian Outreach Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services, representing Asian immigrant clients with multiple barriers to accessing the legal system.

Mark has devoted her professional life to advocating for the rights of low-wage immigrant workers and has successfully litigated complex employment cases under the Massachusetts Wage Act and Fair Labor Standards Act.

In 2014, Mark was honored as a recipient of the Top Women in Law award by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. She currently serves as a board member of Justice at Work, a non-profit that provides legal support to immigrant workers, and is a trustee with the Harry H. Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund. A graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, Mark is a resident of Cambridge.

Lauren Goldman will serve as Deputy Division Chief of the Fair Labor Division. Goldman previously worked under Attorney General Martha Coakley as an Assistant Attorney General in the Fair Labor Division until 2012.

Since then, Goldman has served as chief of staff and policy advisor for the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance, advising the Director on policy, human resources, and labor relations issues for the agency. As chief of staff she also managed more than 700 staff members for the agency’s five regional offices.

During Goldman’s time at the AG’s Office, she enforced the state’s wage and hour laws, prevailing wage and child labor laws, and investigated cases for both criminal prosecution and civil enforcement action against employers who violated the rights of their workers.

Goldman is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and Syracuse University. She resides in Cambridge.

Together, Mark and Goldman will oversee the Fair Labor Division’s enforcement of Massachusetts laws that protect workers including the payment of prevailing wage, minimum wage, and public construction bid laws, as well as the state’s new Earned Sick Time Law and Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

The Attorney General’s Fair Labor Division has broad powers to investigate and enforce violations of these laws through criminal prosecutions and civil enforcement actions. The division uses this authority to protect employees from exploitation by employers, prosecute employers who are failing to follow the Commonwealth’s wage and hour laws, and set a level playing field with clear rules that employers can follow, ensuring that strong economic growth and fairness for workers go hand-in-hand.

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