Pass the Worker Protection Act. by Rich Smith • Jan 28, 2021 at 11:00 am Is your boss trimming your wages? ZORAN ZEREMSKI/GETTY IMAGES Every once in a while the fact that Americans lose three times more money to wage theft than they do to all other forms of theft shocks me out of an afternoon stupor and prompts me to reach for my pitchfork. But now that farm-tool-wielding mobs are a bit passé again, employees vulnerable to wage-thieving bosses will have to settle for the opportunity to rally behind the Workers Protection Act, a bill from Democratic State House Rep. Drew Hansen that would allow workers to sue on behalf of the state and their-coworkers when their bosses violate labor laws.