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okwithmydecay@leminal.space to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 4 days ago

Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable

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Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable

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okwithmydecay@leminal.space to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 4 days ago
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Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable | Novara Media
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A shocking investigation has revealed that employers who fail to pay wages simply get away with it. It’s time to make wage theft a criminal matter, argues Matthew Cole.
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    Aren’t you afraid of USA bombings for such uncapitalistic behaviour?

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      I’m not convinced that the current US administration even knows where the UK is. They’ll probably bomb Island by mistake.

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        Which Island you thinking?

        • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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          Tracy Island.

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            F.A.B

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          Paedo Island …

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      Yes.

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    This “slap on the wrist” handling of it is way too lenient and can only apply to people who accidentally underpay workers. If you can somehow prove that an employer does it on purpose or rejects a person’s claim for their salary they should be held accountable and be put in the same category as stealing a car with up to 4 years imprisonment.

    If you only make employers pay a fine and backpay to whoever requests it might be less than the amount they stole. This way optimal business strategy become “get insured for it and continue”.

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    So you’re saying that some theft isn’t already criminal? Gee, I wonder what class is favored by this…such a mystery. So surprising.

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      It’s gotta be the transes and the brown people, obviously.

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    So, all employers? Surplus value is wage theft by definition.

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    They aren’t already?

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    Fuck that. Steal!

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      From employees?

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        From the printer. Cheat sheet the machine with gasoline.

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      You didn’t read

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        Yeah

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