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Armand1@lemmy.world to Progressive Politics@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable | Novara Media

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Armand1@lemmy.world to Progressive Politics@lemmy.world · 5 days ago
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A shocking investigation has revealed that employers who fail to pay wages simply get away with it. It’s time to make wage theft a criminal matter, argues Matthew Cole.

If you can go to prison for up to 7 years shoplifting, why can’t wage theft be criminally prosecuted too?

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    because laws are made to protect them and their money, not you or your money. they specifically paid for it to be like that.

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    This goes both ways right?!

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      What?

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      All one way streets for us rubes baby.

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