Comment on From 2017 to 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor recovered $3 billion in stolen wages from employers

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would assume so low because the lack of people reporting it. Or they just don’t know what is happening to them is illegal.

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  • admiralteal@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also the DoL is perpetually under-resourced and short staffed. They aren't one of the "good" law enforcement agencies that get bipartisan support -- only the ones who beat up protestors get that kind of universal appeal, somehow. Even though funding to places like the IRS and DoL have insanely good return on investment.

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    • applepie@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even though funding to places like the IRS and DoL have insanely good return on investment.

      We are a nation of temporally poor billionaires, why would we support funding of agencies that would engage of the pinata economics of our fellow wealthy owners?

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As designed. They don’t really want these laws to be enforced, so you create the department but starve it of resources so it can’t do its job effectively.

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  • applepie@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Deff a factor but don't forgot that the government is ran by people who are in the pocket of big biz. So there but so much enforcement that will ever be allowed. I bet most of it happens v smaller employers too lol

    Just look at things like employment of migrant workers, independent contractor misclassifitions esp ride share and door dash..

    Limp dick clowns

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