How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it

RecentlyHeard ^ | 4/5/2021 | Rajesh

[Mr.Unique]

Why would any Conservative have such a misunderstanding about minimum wage laws?

Thomas Sowell on the cruelty of minimum wage laws

Good intentions have unintended consequences - The fallacy of minimum wage laws

I'd expect this level of ignorance at DU or an Antifa rally.

[Mr.Unique]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

RecentlyHeard (which I have never heard of) and written by Rajesh (No Last Name).

I give this the all the credibility of a DNC press release.

[SamAdams76]

People like Danielle Wynne, a $10-an-hour grocery store worker in Florida who claims her employer forced her to work off the clock

I find it very hard to believe that still happens these days. I've been in management for many years and that has always been one of the cardinal sins for a manager to avoid. Not only will it get a manager immediately terminated but the company will be exposed to a lawsuit that it will almost always lose.

In fact, it's gone so far the other direction that we setup our email servers not to send email to hourly employees who are off the clock and we also tell the employees that if they work extra time without putting it on their sheet, that is a serious offense that could result in their termination.

Yes, you read that right. We could actually fire an employee for NOT reporting overtime and getting paid for it. Not that we'd want to do that but that's how seriously we take this.