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How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers
In America, we love to talk about crime. Usually, the rhetoric is focused on the acts we can see: bank heists, stolen bicycles and cars, alleyway robberies. But often, the more egregious crimes are the ones that are “unseen” -- those that happen behind closed doors in Wall Street suites, or over late-night email exchanges on virtual private networks. Among these, one stands out as particularly heinous: wage theft.
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It's because labor laws give the workers no leverage. If you say something, goodbye job. And you don't work those jobs unless you have no choice. One guy thought that going to the labor dept would do some good. I've seen nurses fired from nursing homes for doing that. Mind that unlike 90% of the people who work these sorts of jobs, they have a certificate (CNA). Didn't matter. Calling up on the boss means you're fired.