Posted on 05/04/2021 7:33:24 AM PDT by rajesh0540
Already harmed by long hours and high illness rates, critical jobs battling the pandemic face a new hazard: bosses who rob their salaries.
When a recession occurs, American businesses are most likely to penalise their lowest-wage employees. These establishments often pay less than the minimum wage, require workers to work off the clock, or fail to pay overtime rates. In the most heinous situations, employers fail to pay their workers at all.
According to a Center for Public Integrity report of minimum wage and overtime breaches from the United States, employers that hire child care assistants, gas station clerks, restaurant servers, and security guards are among the most likely to be found misleading their employees. Labor Department. In 2019, the department cited about 8,500 contractors for stealing about $287 million from employees.
Major American corporations are among the worst offenders. They include Halliburton, G4S Wackenhut, and Circle-K stores, which have taken more than $22 million from their staff since 2005, according to department reports.
Their victims serve on the lower levels of the labour force. People like Danielle Wynne, a $10-an-hour grocery store worker in Florida who claims her employer forced her to work off the clock, and Ruth Palacios, a Mexican janitor who paid less than the minimum wage to clean a New York City hospital during the pandemic.
Companies had no reason to abide by the rules. According to a study of statistics from the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division, which reviews federal wage-theft complaints, repeat offenders are seldom penalised. The documents were accessed by Public Integrity by a Freedom of Information Act request spanning October 2005 to September 2020.
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If I recall defrauding someone of their just wages is a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance
Center for Public Integrity = communists, yes?
How do they know which companies are doing this?
A few highly public smack downs of these companies is all you need. Just think what happens when anyone of note says something that offends the woke.
I think employers and employees should be able to agree on a wage without a government minimum wage. This biased article also doesn’t mention the many people who can’t work because the minimum wage is too high.
$7.25 an hour is too high?
It’s more than double that in some cities and/or states.
The article is unadulterated collectivist drivel. Gen Z’ers and their college political officers will love it.
Yes...think about a sixteen year old living rurally who can’t work because of the minimum wage.
I worked for a family business who used to round time clock times in their favor. Year and a half after I quit, I got a check in the mail from them for $1,100.00
Someone reported them and that 15 minutes here, 15 minutes there really added up. They paid out $14k total and had less than 10 hourly employees.
One of the reasons I quit is because they bought a $90k crane truck and then remodeled the offices while in the shop, whenever it rained, which is almost everyday in Ctrl FL summers, we had to get all the extension cords off the floor and drape them across things because the place flooded so bad.
One of the sons was the crane operator.
It was really a two class workplace.
quit.
problem solved.
You really think that only teens earn minimum wage?
And it's $7.25 for about half the states.
So, the point of this article is that sometimes bad people do bad things?
Sorry, but why did you have to go back to 2005 to start the totals? I think it was to make a non-problem look like a problem. Was the Mexican worker an illegal? If so, that probably explains why she did the work without complaint. To me, if you’re unhappy with what/how you’re being paid, quit. I think the reason they don’t quit is because they don’t have any options. And whose fault is that? Such people need to invest in themselves by learning a skill or trade. Perhaps the most under-ultilized vocational education institution in the US is the military. Also, a lot of jobs are not required to pay the Federal minimum wage; only the state minimum applies. If you can’t earn enough to support your family, whose fault is that? Two options come to mind: 1) invest in yourself so you can command a higher wage in the market, or 2) don’t start a family until you can afford one. I have a hard time feeling sympathetic for people who don’t assume responsibility for their own circumstances.
Minimum wages are designed to prevent competition by people who are willing to work for less. If you want to hire someone for $5 an hour and that person agrees then it’s not the place of government to tell you not to do this.
That doesn’t excuse not paying your employees.
No...it’s just that I want people who want to work to be able to find work. I don’t know what your goal is.
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