Comment on What is wage theft exactly?
hawgietonight@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some easy examples you can relate to:
- do you work overtime, even for a minute, and don’t get paid for it? Wage theft!
- does your company make fun of people using their allowed days off, making you not use them? Wage theft!
- does your company make you buy tools required for your job, because the ones available are shit or non existant? Wage theft!
- does your boss call you during your days off, holidays or vacations? Wage theft!
- are you assigned tasks that are more suited to a higher compensation level, but don’t see a dime? Wage theft!
- are your coffee and lunch breaks interrupted early or entirely canceled and not compensated? Again, wage theft!
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
While the examples you shared are shitty, some of them aren’t what articles/studies mean by wage theft. Usually it’s concrete cases where an employee works but isn’t paid - for example shaving hours down, “oh we pay in 15 minute increments” but the rounding is always in favor of the company, or conveniently but regularly missing a couple hours of OT.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Your definition is the stricter answer yes. Not getting paid overtime when you are legally suppose to, and penalizing people for taking PTO are too. The rest are a stretch that imo waters down the major ones.