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The US Department of Labor announced it found 43 workers at a security company in Pearl, Mississippi, were misclassified as independent contractors and did not receive proper overtime pay.
And wire fraud. the acts that would be -- oh, and one other thing, the coverup from the misclassification of the zelensky transcript. >> and obstruction of justice. >> and obstruction of justice. but the basic idea, politically and criminally, because, you know, we know the justice department will not green light any prosecution, the president took something that belongs to everybody, not justi the money but the national security interests that were entailed in the $400 million to zelensky, and he wanted to exchange it for something of value, as ellen weintraub just says, for his campaign. bot...
Changes they've led to new forms of employment which often involve the misclassification of independent contractors was it worth it in food fun to these people aren't protected by collective labor agreements and they don't benefit from the social security system they leave these are worrying developments and we're starting to see the emergence of a digital proletariat. we union activists will need to radically rethink how to represent the interests of people in these new forms of employment enormous fifty ohms for good german employers must pay social security contributions on wages but not fo...
solely benefits the intern. it can't provide an advantage to the company. so if a company wants to continue to have -- >> so if you ever have the thought, you're like oh my god, thank god i can make my unpaid intern do this thing, that's an alarm bell. >> right. >> right? no, i'm serious, that this has not been structured were their benefit. >> exactly. when you start to have an inkling that you want to send them to go get coffee, that means, you know, the dollar sign should pop up in your head and it means that you have to pay them the minimum wage. we're not talking about an abundance of ...
Not employees. therefore, they're not subject to the same legal regulations. the second trend is a trend of wage theft that practitioners and scholars call and that is when firms simply don't pay their workers for the hours that they've worked. whether you call it an internship and you don't pay workers for doing the same amount, the same kinds of work that they would otherwise be doing if they were paid or classify someone as an independent contractor or don't pay them for overtime, for instance, that's wage theft. misclassification is the other piece of this puzzle. so workers in the economy...