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How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it Follow Us Question of the Day       Ruth Palacios and Arturo Xelo, a married couple from Mexico, work at their fruit stand in the Corona neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. They worked seven days a week for months disinfecting ... more > By ALEXIA FERNÁNDEZ CAMPBELL and JOE YERARDI - Associated Press - Tuesday, May 4, 2021 Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, e...

Wage theft: How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it Updated 9:38 AM; Today 9:38 AM Fidel Martinez stands for a portrait at one of his former worksites in Minneapolis on Sunday, April 18, 2021. Martinez worked for a demolition contractor in the fall of 2020, demolishing several Walgreens stores and other structures. Martinez said the contractor owed him and his co-workers more than $20,000. His boss kept telling him the money was coming, but he would get his paychecks weeks late, and many of them he didn't get at all.AP Photo/John Minchillo Facebook Share Already batter...

by Alexia FernáNdez Campbell And Joe Yerardi, The Associated Press Posted May 4, 2021 1:21 am ADT Last Updated May 4, 2021 at 1:25 am ADT Ruth Palacios and Arturo Xelo, a married couple from Mexico, work at their fruit stand in the Corona neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. They worked seven days a week for months disinfecting COVID-19 patient rooms at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, but weren't paid overtime Palacios says. The couple filed a federal lawsuit against the contractor that hired them, alleging their pay was cut ...

Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, essential workers struggling through the pandemic face another hazard: employers who steal their wages. Some economists say wage theft is so pervasive that it’s costing workers at least $15 billion a year.

US companies that cheat workers out of pay unlikely to be fined or punished, Labor Department data found By Alexia Fernandez Campbell and Joe Yerardi The Center for Public Integrity Published  Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, essential workers struggling through the pandemic face another hazard of hard times: employers who steal their wages. When a recession hits, U.S. companies are more likely to stiff their lowest-wage workers. These businesses often pay less than the minimum wage, make employees work off the clock, or refuse to pay overtime rates. In the most egre...