New Report Gives 46 States an F or an F- (Does That Even Exist?) In Wage Theft Enforcement [View all]

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http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/06/15/46-states-get-an-f-in-wage-theft-enforcement/



A new report surveying the effectiveness of wage theft laws suggests a great imbalance between the private and public sectors. As the private sector’s wages and benefits continue to plummet, low-wage standards are becoming the new American norm:

Laws meant to protect workers against violations by unscrupulous employers in all 50 states, this report reveals a very different picture of the actual “imbalance” between private sector and public sector employment standards. Since the private sector workforce is virtually non-union and concentrated in lower-wage sectors, the conditions such working people face are increasingly the foundation on which the American standard of living rests. Laws to guarantee an employee’s right to be paid what she or he is legally owed form a bulwark against the type of mass exploitation we are mortified by in other countries, and which are only a couple of generations distant in our own nation’s history.



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Chaz Bolte is a native of Pittsburgh, PA where he attended Slippery Rock University. He currently contributes to WePartyPatriots, Addicting Info, Secret Party Room, and Football Nation. You can follow him on Twitter @ChazBolte