Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Ability to Do Business
Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Ability to Do Business
To combat pervasive wage theft in New York, three new bills were introduced in the legislature that would punish violators.
To combat pervasive wage theft in New York, three new bills were introduced in the legislature that would punish violators.
This is too much of a wet dream to come true. Too much protections for the plebs.
if it ever gets turned into an actual law it will be so full of holes as to be useless.
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
yearmonth withoutoffendinggetting 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.
Fun fact, the "Crying Indian" ad and that entire campaign was created by Pepsi, Coke, and other companies to shift blame for plastic waste from producers (corporations) to customers.
Once single use plastics became common, littering exploded in America. Many cities and states started enacting laws to ban single use plastics because society largely blamed the companies that produced them.
Pepsi, Coke, and other companies preferred the more profitable single use plastics for their packaging, so they funded the Keep America Beautiful campaign to shift public accountability away from corporations and instead to individuals.
A similar thing happened when the first cars started killing pedestrians in cities, automakers successfully popularized the term "jaywalker" shifting blame for the murders from motorists to pedestrians.
But don't take my word for it, go look it up!
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!