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Wage Theft Is a Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft–But Workers Unprotected (epi.org)
9 points by paulpauper on Oct 24, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



$933 million lost in unclaimed salary makes for ~$7.3 per worker per year in the US (~128m in 2018). Tese are of course, like the article says: claimed losses. Not many know about what they could have.

There should be no unclear expectations in a workplace, but that is easier said than done. Lots of errors happen due to mistakes and incompetence, because people running companies are not special.

I have no idea as to what would eradicate this. Perhaps unionizing would help? Their job is to oversee these kinds of things


This is fundamentally a cultural problem that is reflected into the state of weak and poorly enforced laws. Unionizing is always going to a major uphill battle in this sort of society. Those people who are the most exploited have no political power and so face serious obstacles... including unfortunately the lack of class consciousness.




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