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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...

How Businesses Get Away With Ripping Off Poor Employees Child care workers, gas station clerks, restaurant servers and security guards are often at risk of being cheated by their employers. Alexia Fernåndez and Joe Yerardi 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 ov...

How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it U.S. companies that cheat their workers out of pay are unlikely to be fined or punished even after they're caught, The Center for Public Integrity found. Author: ALEXIA FERNÁNDEZ CAMPBELL and JOE YERARDI (The Center for Public Integrity) Published: 6:48 AM MST May 4, 2021 Updated: 6:48 AM MST May 4, 2021 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...

U.S. companies are stealing pay from low-wage workers, report says May 4, 2021 / 11:18 AM / AP On a Tuesday afternoon last June, Humberto was yanking old wires from the walls of a middle school in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, when his cellphone rang. Humberto's wife, who had just returned from her weekly trip to the grocery store, was on the line.  "Our account is negative," she said. The 45-year-old electrician, who spoke on the condition that he be identified by his middle name because he is undocumented, had been working 10 hours a day, six days a week as part of a $200 million ren...

Some employers ripping off their own workers ... and getting away with it Updated May 04, 2021; Posted May 04, 2021 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. 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. (Marshall Ritzel, Associated Press) Facebook Share Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, essential workers struggling through the...