Wage Theft

While JPMorgan Chase Loses Its Lunch, Some Janitors in Their Building Can Barely Pay for Theirs

Jose Suarez | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, JP Morgan, Wage Theft, Great Recession, Jpmorgan Chase 2 Billion Loss, Miami Wage Theft, Jamie Dimon, Jamie Dimon JP Morgan, Miami News

While Jamie Dimon was preparing an explanation to his shareholders, the janitors that clean the financial offices owned by JPMorgan Chase in downtown Miami were wondering if they could just get paid what they are owed.

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Speak Out Against Wage Theft

Dr. J. Fritz Bazin | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Miami Wage Theft Ordinance, Wage Theft Ordinance, Wage Theft, Wage Theft Florida, Florida Impact, Miami Impact, Miami News

One of the most striking elements of the many cases of wage theft that plague South Florida is how often the workers affected are those who are surrounded by luxury in their workplaces.

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Walmart Fined $4.8 Million For Not Paying Overtime

The Huffington Post | Alice Hines | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Department of Labor, Wage Theft, Walmart Overtime, Walmart Workers, Walmart Settlement, Walmart Vision Center, Business News

How many government organizations does it take to investigate one company? In Walmart's case, at least three. On Tuesday, the Department of Labor ...

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New York GOP Wants To Repeal Wage Theft Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Albany, Labor, Video, Low-Wage Workers, Low Wages, Wage Theft, Wages, Gop, Labor Unions, Unions, New York, New York City, Republicans, Politics News

Republican lawmakers in New York state are working to undo a 2010 anti-wage theft law that labor activists hailed as a landmark piece of legislation p...

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Florida GOP Tries To Kill Anti-Wage Theft Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Video, Labor, Workers, Wage Theft, Retail Sales, Gop, Retail, Florida, Miami-Dade, Miami, Republicans, Politics News

A bill moving through the Florida legislature would kill any local laws designed to help workers recover wages owed by their employers, prompting demo...

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Workers Who File Wage-Theft Claims Face Long Waits, Steep Odds

Chicago Reporter | By: Maria Ines Zamudio | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Wage Theft, Illinois Department of Labor, Chicago News

Jose didn't think his life could get any worse. That was until he opened his eyes and realized he was lying in the middle of the street feeling a d...

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Thou Shalt Not Steal; Why HB 609 Undermines the Tenets of Judaism

Rabbi Solomon Schiff | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Wage Theft Prevention, Wage Theft Miami, Wage Theft, HB 609, Wage Theft Florida, Florida Wage Theft Bill, Wage-Protection, Miami News

As a person of faith who believes in justice, I strongly urge politicians to vote no on HB 609, to not suppress the ability of local communities to address the scourge of wage theft.

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Wage Theft: A Moral Crisis in Our Communities

Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Wage Theft Prevention, Wage Protection, Wage Theft Prevention Act, Wage Theft, Wage Theft Florida, Workers Rights, Miami News

By any standard, wage theft is immoral, bad for the economy, unfair to ethical employers, and devastating to workers who are struggling to make ends meet.

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Working Poor USA

Bill Quigley | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Underemployment, Working Poor, Living Wage, Wage Theft, Unemployment, Overtime, Minimum Wage Employment, Minimum Wage, Business News

Millions of people in the U.S. work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the U.S. needs to dedicate itself to making work pay.

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Working Poor Stiffed Millions In Wages: Lawsuit

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Hotels, Marriott, Labor, Indianapolis, Wage Theft, Hotel Workers, Hyatt Hotels, Restaurants, Hss, Housekeeping, Unite Here, Holiday Inn, Hospitality Staffing Solutions, Labor Unions, Latino Voices News

More than a dozen low-level hotel workers in Indianapolis have filed a class-action lawsuit against ten of the city's hotels and a labor staffing agen...

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Workers Allege Abusive Conditions At Walmart-Contracted Warehouse

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Walmart, Labor, Wage Theft, Riverside California, Warehouse-Workers, Business News

A group of workers at a California warehouse handling goods bound for Walmart stores have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming they've been working u...

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Walmart Warehouse Under Investigation By California Labor Officials

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Walmart, Minimum Wage, Labor, Wage Theft, Subcontracting, Walmart Chicago, Manual Labor, Schneider Logistics, Investigation, Warehouse-Workers, Latino Prosperity, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Investigators in California have discovered numerous labor law violations at a massive warehouse handling Walmart goods, according to st...

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Workers' Lawsuit Crumbles In Wake Of Walmart V. Dukes Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Walmart, Labor, Wage Theft, Wal-Mart v. Dukes, Dollar Tree, Discrimination, Betty Dukes Wal-Mart, Class Action Lawsuit, Unions, Labor Unions, Business News

The ink may have barely dried on the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, but the controversial case is already helping to giv...

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Business Interests Take Aim At New Wage Theft Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Minimum Wage, Labor, Wage Theft, Wages, Restaurants, Department of Labor, Living Wage, Construction, Florida, Wage Theft Prevention Act, Day Laborers, Business News

Late last year, advocates for low-wage workers in Florida's Palm Beach County made what they thought was a modest request of their county commissioner...

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Illinois Restaurateur Owes Workers $1 Million In Back Pay, Damages

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: El Matador Chicago, Chicago Restaurants, Wage Theft, Hilda Solis, Restaurants, Chicago Labor Violations, Department of Labor, El Caporal Chicago, Waiters, Dolores Onate, Overtime, Decatur, Ricardo Onate, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Workers got a pretty raw deal at Dolores Onate's two Mexican restaurants in Decatur, Ill. Not only were the waiters and kitchen workers ...

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Remembering MLK: Honor The Dignity Of Workers

Alexander Mikulich, Ph.D. | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Southern Poverty Law Center, Interfaith Worker Justice, Martin Luther King, Wage Theft, Workers Rights, MLK and Workers Rights, Labor Issues, MLK and Unions, Labor Unions, Day of Solidarity, Religion News

We should also carry on Dr. King's commitment to economic justice by making fair budget choices, protecting labor rights and defending the dignity of workers.

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Workers' Rights: The Big Picture

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minimum Wage, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, Unemployment, Workers, Labor Rights, Wages, Wage Theft, Unions, Wal-Mart, Workers Rights, Business News

Adapted from authors' remarks at the Urban Justice Center Human Rights Luncheon, February 3 2011 You don't have to work at a think tank to realize t...

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New Study Uncovers Wage Theft and Workplace Abuse in the Garden State

Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undocumented Immigrants, Wage Theft, Workplace, New Jersey, Wages, New York State Legislature, Wage Theft Prevention Act, Workplace Safety, Seton Hall, Day Laborers, Undocumented Workers, Politics News

For day laborers, finding work too often means accepting less than minimum wage, forgoing safety equipment, or enduring abuse by crooked employers. A ...

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Weekly Audit: GOP Plays Chicken with the Debt Ceiling

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Weekly Pulse: GOP Plays Chicken with the Debt CeilingBy Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) is calling for a "big show...

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Wage Theft: Thou Shalt Not Steal From Your Workers

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Crisis, Bush Tax Cuts, Minimum Wage, Wall Street, Great Recession, Business News, Corporate Greed, Great Depression, Wage Theft, National Day of Action Against Wage Theft, Wage Theft Prevention Act, Interfaith Worker Justice, Wage Workers, Economy, Religion News

As the wealthy bankers are propped up and subsidized by the government, everyday working people who have little as it is are robbed daily -- by their employers. Now is a better time than most to discuss the crisis of wage theft in the United States.

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Hanukkah, Human Rights And The Revelation Of The Hidden

Rabbi Jill Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hanukkah and Social Justice, Miracle of Hanukkah, Hanukkah 2010, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Judaism and Social Justice, Judaism and Human Rights, Rabbis for Human Rights, Hanukkah and Human Rights, Tikkun Olam, Wage Theft, .Sex, Religion News

On the fifth and sixth days of Hanukah, Rabbis for Human Rights will hold its biennial conference. At this conference, rabbis, lay leaders, and Jews of all backgrounds will learn about pressing human rights abuses.

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New York's Lousy Jobs (And How We Can Make Them Better)

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Employees, Public Pensions, Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, Wage Theft, Wages, Middle Class, Economic Development, Jobs, Living Wage, Wage Theft Prevention Act, Walmart, Public Workers, New York News

Should we tear down the city's middle class? Or work to turn lousy jobs into good ones? That's the policy choice facing New York's leaders. So far, their decisions aren't encouraging.

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BREAKING: 'Slave-like' State Fair Scandal, Wage Theft Epidemic, Spur Nationwide Protests

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kim Bobo, Labor, Workers, Corporations, Third World America, Economy, Wage Theft, Labor Department, Hilda Solis, Department of Labor, Afl-Cio, Obama, Interfaith Worker Justice, Unions, Business News

As much as $19 billion is stolen from American workers annually in unpaid overtime and minimum wage violations. Wage theft is one of the most dramatic problems reflecting the income inequality described in Arianna Huffington's Third World America .

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Albany: Last Chance to Stop the Wage Thieves

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wage-and-Hour, Wage-Theft-Prevention-Act, Wage Theft, Workplace, Make the Road New York, New York News

It's difficult to imagine anything more basic to a free economy than the right of an employee to be paid for his or her work. Yet this fundamental right is routinely violated in New York's low-wage industries.

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Quinn Signs Law Penalizing Employers Who Shortchange Workers

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois Workers, Pat Quinn, Illinois Labor, Illinois Laws, Wage Theft, Pat Quinn Wage Theft, Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois Wage Theft Laws, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Employers who shortchange or don't pay their employees will face stiffer penalties and workers will have more rights under a bill Gov....

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