Can’t abide by business law? Can’t run a business. Seems fair enough.
Even suspending their businesses seems like a light penalty for stealing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars—anyone else would be facing prison time.
Gotta steal from the rich for financial crimes to land you in prison, donchaknow.
It isn't even a crime yet even though it makes shoplifting pale in comparison.
Wage theft should be penalized in a way that includes paying the victim back like 10x. The opportunity cost from lost wages is huge.
I would also like to see some jail time, as occurs with all other thefts in those amounts and with that much evidence.
Yea, “making all the other workers unemployed” as a response isn’t really equitable. Make it economically unfeasible but “I fucked up your time card, here’s $100” is better than “I fucked up your time card, get a new job.”
Companies that thrive off the practice get wrecked, mistakes still have substantial payouts to ensure compliance.
Fuck the private restaurant business. Just tons of fuckery on taxes and wages. From underreporting tips to working off the clock to writing off trips to France as a “business expense”. Glass of wine or 3 at a vineyard and now it’s a wine-buying-and-research trip.
As opposed to the public restaurant business?
My reference was to the difference between chain restaurants vs named restaurants that there may be very few of. Some place like Friday’s is run completely different than Casa Maya Taqueria.
It's about time. The Dept of Labor has been gutted over the years and hasn't had the resources to deal with this.
Trumpy Wumpy and his Oompa Loompas back in 2016[1] said it was up to the States to figure this out. Just sad it took so long
[1] https://prospect.org/labor/combating-wage-theft-donald-trump/
I fucking dig it.
I was wondering how the thieves, who might be mismanagers in general too, would ever pay back employees if they get shut down.
Fifteen days could be enough, though. The successes in Santa Clara County & New Jersey are promising!
They’re thieves, so why not treat them like the rest of us and put them in jail?
It's only New York state but hey, gotta start somewhere and better late than never
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