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This is too much of a wet dream to come true. Too much protections for the plebs.
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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if it ever gets turned into an actual law it will be so full of holes as to be useless.
I'm going to stay hopeful, but you're both right...
Yeah but lets just bask in imagination for just a second. That was nice.
It'll be on the 20th consecutive time they get caught, with each catch having to be in a new time period. And if they go a ~~year~~ month without ~~offending~~ getting caught their counter resets. Also, if they get a lawyer there's an arcane legal process to instead jail the employee.
Yeah, notice how it says "proposed." If it's good for the general public, Republicans are going to shoot it down.
Every time I look at wage theft stories and comments, I see people who don't understand their rights under current law. Y'all aren't helpless and getting robbed, you just don't know your rights.
Maybe a government funded ad blast would work better? Kinda like the "crying Indian" ad back in the day?
The rules are intentionally vague and information is intentionally not easily available. Additionally, many workers are not in a position to claim their rights because they are living paycheck to paycheck and legal processes are expensive and last very long.
Most people don't know that literally all you have to do is tell the government about the issue and they will spend the money to look into it themselves, as well as dealing with the court cases. It's why the department of labor exists
Unless your local government is the one commiting wage theft.
God bless America...
The employee does not pay a dime to fight labor issues. State have their own Department of Labor for that.
I hope you never have to experience how hard it can be to actually get your money. And as I said, even if there is a case it can take a very long time before you see any money. For someone living paycheck to paycheck this can mean losing their house. Put the risk of losing your job for making a case on top of that (employment at will). I understand completely why many workers don’t do it. The system is made to work against them.
So what you just told me is that in 25 states businesses can do whatever they want to their workers. This needs to be national, like the NLRB, and it needs teeth.
Where should a person go to learn their rights?
Department of labor has a lot of good resources.
Part of the problem is that even if there can't be any legal repercussions, it's easy enough for an employer to manufacture a reason to fire someone if they fight back against this sort of thing. So people fear being fired even if they have a right to file a complaint about it.
Good, fuck em hard and dry
YEAH! GET EM' RIGHT WHERE THE MONEY IS!