CHART: Wage Theft (by Bosses) More Than Doubles Actual Theft (by Robbers) in Kentucky

[Omaha Steve]

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http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2014/09/02/chart-wage-theft-by-bosses-more-than-doubles-actual-theft-by-robbers-in-kentucky/




Kentuckians lose more than twice the amount of money to bad bosses than they do to robbers according to an odd new chart from the Kentucky Labor Cabinet.

Comparing numbers from the Kentucky State Police to their own data, the office discovered $2.5 million more in wage theft (from 12,264 victims) than common theft (from 1,937 victims).

“You hear about robberies on the news all the time, but wage theft is a bigger problem,” Kentucky Labor Cabinet Secretary Larry Roberts said. “Wage theft happens every day in Kentucky, and it impacts numerous industries and multiple types of workers. Not only are employees cheated, but taxpayers are as well, because no payroll taxes are paid on that money unless the Labor Cabinet collects it as restitution for the employees.”

The Kentucky Labor Cabinet counts wage theft as unpaid overtime; withheld final paychecks; illegal deductions of pay; lower pay than the legal minimum wage requirement; misclassification of workers as independent contractors; unpaid breaks; time-clock shaving; mandatory tip-pooling; prevailing wage violations. Adding to the problem of unscrupulous employers is that the state has only 15 wage and hour inspectors to cover more than 1.9 million workers, an average of one inspector for ever 126,600 workers.

FULL story at link.

[Scuba]

1. I'm sure the Law-and-Order-Republicans will be all over this.

Or not.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. It's all most impossible to prove a

wage and hour theft case in any right-to-work state. By the time you hire your attorney,and then you must first find one that will take your case,your already in a hole. It takes years to get your case heard and then your chances slim to none you will get a positive ruling.