Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in #NewYork
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“We did not have the data to understand the scale of the issue in New York State until the ProPublica and Documented series came out last year,” state Sen. Jessica Ramos said.
Read our full reporting, with Documented, on wage theft in New York state:
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If a worker takes $1 from the company's cash register once, even by mistake, they're treated like a criminal and go to jail.
If a company knowingly and intentionally takes $10 from each worker's paycheck every two weeks, you have to take them court if you want your money, no one is found guilty of any wrongdoing, and noone goes to jail.
A corporation only wants personhood when it means they get to be avictim, not when it's time to be held accountable.
"The legislation was prompted by reports of rampant #WageTheft against #NewYork workers, including two investigations published by Documented and @ProPublica. The stories revealed that more than 127,000 New Yorkers have been victims of wage theft during a recent five-year period, but that the New York State Department of #Labor was unable to recover $79 million in back wages owed to the workers."
- @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/wage-theft-law-new-york-violators-doing-business?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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