Wage Theft Costing Low-Income Workers Billions
Americans toiling away in low-wage jobs already struggle to earn a living, and a new report says these meager paychecks are winnowed down by wage theft with alarming regularity.
Nearly $1 billion was recovered in 2012 by lawyers or regulatory agencies acting on behalf of workers who were paid below minimum wage, not paid for overtime or other wage and hour violations, according to a first-time analysis conducted by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. And the problem is growing, EPI analysts say.
Labor experts say they’re not surprised. “It seems likely that the recession would have intensified this problem,” said Ruth Milkman, a professor of sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Milkman was one of the authors of a 2009 study of low-wage workers in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. About a quarter of workers surveyed said they had been paid below minimum wage within the last week. Three-quarters of those who worked more than 40 hours a week weren’t paid overtime.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/wage-theft-costing-low-income-workers-billions-n212406
This is why republicans don't like regulation...regulation means they can't get away with this shit.
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