Colony Diner owners plead guilty to wage violations

After a joint investigation involving the Nassau County district attorney’s office and federal and state labor departments, the owners of the Colony Diner in East Meadow have pleaded guilty to underpaying 72 workers and falsifying records, the district attorney’s office said Tuesday. It was …

When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Epidemic That’s Sweeping America

Imagine you’ve just landed a job with a big-time retailer. Your task is to load and unload boxes from trucks and containers. It’s back-breaking work. You toil 12 to 16 hours a day, often without a lunch break. Sweat drenches …

El Paso Becomes Second City to Indict Employer for Wage Theft

On Thursday, for the first time in El Paso history an employer was arrested and indicted for robbing a worker of his wages. In a state that constantly (and loudly) touts its business-friendly attitude, workers almost never reap the benefits. Construction workers …

Texas wage theft legislation advances

Amarillo, TX – Stolen wages often go unreported in Texas, and the perpetrators often go unpunished.  Now a state senator wants to amend Texas law to crack down on wage theft. “Wage theft” is exactly what it sounds like – a …

Wage theft increasing among undocumented work and low-wage jobs

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Restaurant Worker Paid Below Minimum Wage for Training

Food-service sector among worst violators of wage laws nationally and in San Francisco Last year, Mauricio Lozano found a job through a friend at a pizzeria in North Beach. The pay was $8 an hour, in cash. He said a …

Portland Wage Theft Video

Mayor Curtatone proposes ‘Wage Theft’ ordinance

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone submitted a proposed ordinance related to Wage Theft to the Somerville Board of Aldermen at their regular meeting on Thursday, April 11.   The proposed ordinance includes language in the city’s code of ordinances granting city …

Philly Security Guards Protest Wage Theft by Employer

Five protestors were arrested last week in Philadelphia for blocking traffic in an effort to call attention to a crime that is a menace to hourly workers nationwide: wage theft. Wage theft can refer to any number of ways in …

‘Fashion Police’ Accused of Wage Theft

Joan Rivers spent years as a television writer, including a stint on The Tonight Show. But this week, the popular comedian is one of the targets of a strike by TV writers on the show Fashion Police, which Rivers co-hosts with Kelly …

Chicago Ordinance

For Angel Nava, Chicago’s newly adopted wage theft ordinance is particularly personal. Until recently, Nava had worked at the same car wash business in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood for 14 years. The 55-year-old employee did it all — washing, detailing, buffing …

Students call for wage theft awareness

Students in a Migrant Farmworkers class will educate community members about labor rights Thursday, launching a campaign that may call on the University of Minnesota administration to get involved. Labor Rights Violations on Minnesota Industrial Farms will focus specifically on …

Construction Booming In Texas, But Many Workers Pay Dearly

Like almost everything in the Texas, the construction industry in the Lone Star State is big. One in every 13 workers here is employed in the state’s $54 billion-per-year construction industry. Homebuilding and commercial construction may be an economic driver …

California Labor Commissioner Fines Garment Contractor for Wage Theft

LOS ANGELES, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su has issued citations against O & K Apparel Inc. to pay $113,785 in overtime wages for 110 employees, plus penalties of $61,450 for failing to …

Wage theft is not uncommon

Alex, a resident of Boulder County, was working full-time at a gym in Boulder for a little over a month, but he had yet to receive a paycheck for his hard-earned work. Alex was owed approximately $1,000. He tried discussing …

Garment Workers Accuse Retailer of ‘Wage Theft’

Protestors swarmed Rodeo Drive Wednesday, demanding money for garment workers who reportedly weren’t paid for making clothes for retailer Bebe. The demonstrators claimed that Bebe owes them tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages. They accuse Bebe — which …

The moral imperative to end wage theft: Guest opinion

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbors work for nothing, and does not give them their wages. (Jeremiah 22:13) In places of worship, in workplaces and homes, Oregonians …

Wage Theft In The Restaurant Industry

As a former chef and manager who spent 15 years working in kitchens, it was of no surprise to me that the restaurant and hotel industry topped every category in the recently released study by Fuerza Laboral on wage theft …

Our wage theft epidemic

Last October, Anthony M. Van Buren drove 135 miles south from his home in Charlottesville, Va., to the small town of Moneta in search of his former boss, Robert Brown, the owner of Star Valley Painting Contractors Inc. The visit …

Victory in Chicago! Local Ordinance Passed

The city of Chicago is adding a bit more muscle to its laws against wage theft. On Wednesday, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance which empower the city to strip companies of their business licenses if they cut corners on wages …