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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Jun 27, 2013, 04:33 PM Jun 2013

Employers Skirting Minimum Wage Classifying Workers As Contractors.

More and more employers are classifying workers as "contractors" to escape minimum wage and tax laws. The Labor Department does not have the staff to enforce labor laws. Wage theft in many states goes unpunished. Wage and labor divisions have been pretty much dismantled or underfunded.

So if you work and do not get paid, there is little you can do but go to small claims court with a RW judge. Contract employment for workers is the new model for employers. You pay all your own expenses.

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Employers Skirting Minimum Wage Classifying Workers As Contractors. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jun 2013 OP
Just wait for the ACA. That's when the flood starts. dkf Jun 2013 #1
When are we going to classify wage theft as a federal felony? Initech Jun 2013 #2

Initech

(100,182 posts)
2. When are we going to classify wage theft as a federal felony?
Thu Jun 27, 2013, 05:03 PM
Jun 2013

Hey freepers and teabaggers: these are the real freeloaders living off your hard earned money!!!!!

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