Is there such a thing, or is Hillary just saying she'll jail anyone who doesn't pay whatever she deems appropriate?
From each according to his ability, to each according to PIAPS' whims.
RE: What is “wage theft?”
That my friend, is the danger — it has not been defined. Therefore, it will be anything Hillary and her cohorts decide it will be.
Like "Micro-Aggression" it is another leftist fabrication designed to demonize or criminalize various aspects of everyday life.
Sounds like Hillary has been re-reading “Das Capital”. Marx asserted that the wealth of the capitalist, ie, employers, resulted from their withholding wealth rightfully belonging to the workers by paying them less than the fair value for their work. Anyone paying less than a “living wage” would be guilty of “wage theft”.
That's when you bust your hump trying to make a living for your family and then the government taxes the living crap out of you....stealing your money..!!
Is there such a thing, or is Hillary just saying she'll jail anyone who doesn't pay whatever she deems appropriate?
It's what the federal and state governments commit against taxpayers.
“Wage Theft” is what they call situations where hourly workers are pressured to work off-the-clock so as not to accrue overtime. Walmart is widely accused of pressuring employees to clock out but stay in the building and tidy up under threat of possibly losing their jobs.
Having worked in the retail industry I can tall you that vast numbers of employees are too dumb and/or lazy to figure out how to use the timeclock in any event.
I've been employed for a long, long time. Never heard of such a thing. Sounds like red meat for the base. "Yeah! The Man is stealing from us!!!"
I've also had bosses who were downright abusive, employers who expected me to work ridiculous (120+/week) hours, others who expected ridiculous (90+%) travel, and so on.
One thing that all of those lousy jobs had in common? I could leave at any time. Of course, I'd not have job or salary to fall back on ..... but continuing to go there was a *choice*, just as looking for better opportunities was a choice, as well.
The other thing that they all had in common was that I was paid. Had my paychecks stopped - maybe that's the "wage theft" that Hillary! was alluding to - then I'd have stopped going to work, pretty much the minute the first paycheck bounced.