financial crimes have exploded in the last 20 years to the tune of trillions; with #wageTheft being the single biggest crime committed in the United States every single day.
cops kill more innocent Americans than ever before; while stealing from & enrich themselves with impounded property & assets of extra-judicial suspects.
but #media really want you to believe that working class folks too sick to jump a turnstile means “crime” is down.
I always cringe when I read the term "cheap labour" coming out of the mouth of some tech/business journalist or entrepreneur. Because it's either "underpaid work" or "slavery" depending on the case. #wages#wageTheft#workers
Ostensibly to help reduce stock dilution caused by stock awards to core staff (including the CEO), once again (as I've pointed out before), it shows that Uber's #business model is nothing to do with investment in #innovation & everything to do with #wagetheft & expoiting #workers.
Uber doesn't need any tech innovation or new kit, so investment not required; just keeps sh*ting on the drivers to make a profit!
What's currently getting in the way of the #India - UK #trade deal?
Now it seems the Indian Govt. is keen to get national insurance contributions paid by temporary staff in the UK (mainly in the IT sector) transferred back to India... the UK, of course, wants to hold on to the money even though the #workers concerned would never receive an associated pension in the UK.
Oh dear, quiet state #wagetheft has been exposed... and the Indians (unsurprisingly) are not happy
Can someone explain this #leapDay#wageTheft for salaried employees to me?
For every #leapYear I worked for the man (paid weekly or bi-weekly), I was paid for every day I worked. The dates worked didn't matter. Actually that applied every single year - leaping or not.
Are there really people who are paid the same amount every month regardless of the number of working / worked days? Or are there loads of people only paid once a year who don't control their own salary?
This seems made up to me like the government needing to control who plays on a girls baseball team.
Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in #NewYork
“We did not have the data to understand the scale of the issue in New York State until the ProPublica and Documented series came out last year,” state Sen. Jessica Ramos said.
If you wanted an estimate of how much #wagetheft is involved in the #gigeconomy then the #EU has answer for you.
The EU has just agreed new regulation that will standardise & enhance #workers rights in the gig economy, to include paternity leave & healthcare as well as banning automated firing decisions & cementing other (usual) workers' rights.
The EU expects this to add around 40% to prices for firms like Uber & Deliveroo... an indication of the 'saving' gained by exploring their workers!
"The LA-based Pilipino Workers Center has helped Filipinos win wage theft cases against abusive employers. It has also secured a $35 million budget for education and outreach programs that empower domestic workers, including caregivers, nannies and house cleaners."
The very instant the #SocialSecurityAct was passed in 1935, American conservatives (in both parties) began lobbying to destroy it. After all, a reserve army of forelock-tugging plebs and family retainers won't voluntarily assemble themselves - they need to be goaded into it by the threat of slowly starving to death in their dotage.
Meanwhile, the very real, non-imaginary, accelerating, multi-billion-dollar plague of #WageTheft is conspicuously missing from the public discourse, despite a total that dwarfs all retail theft in America by an order of magnitude:
How dare workers use their sick leave? Taking sick days when they're sick?! The gall!
I'm glad this write-up makes the point that sick leave is part of your compensation package. What's next for the WSJ, "how dare workers ask to be paid"? (Never mind, I'm sure they've said something just like that many times already.)
"Corporate crime" is an oxymoron in America. While it's true that the most consequential and profligate theft in America is #WageTheft, its mechanisms are so obscure and, well, dull that it's easy to sell us on the false impression that the real problem is shoplifting:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
The 2022 CRA charity return for the Bad Place is up now.
Not that anyone gives the teeniest shit but the place that stiffed me on a decade's salary spent $260K of the $500K they had in the bank last year to service their sales of $18K so like 140 member accounts.
They made more than a quarter million dollars vanish without a trace in a single year. At that rate they must have gone through most of the $240K they had at the beginning of this year by now.
My former employers (see pinned tweet and CV) are complete thieves hollowing out the gutted remains of a charity I gave decades to and was exploited by.
@realTuckFrumper If #police were as likely to shoot corporate criminals as they are to shoot Black motorists with broken taillights, #WageTheft would stop.
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An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York #restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.