Try getting a court to recognize that. . .
I know. Just pointing out that it is more serious than other forms of not being just to the worker.
It has happened to me three times. Two of them were individuals, and I don’t work for individuals anymore. It must be a corporation with a reputation to worry about. One of them was a small business just closing up and the owner thought he could get away with not giving me my last paycheck, but I got it—I shamed him into it. Also I was starting work elsewhere in the same type of small business and word gets around, so he gave in.