So I recently injured myself and was working reduced hours till I finished recovering, I work in fast food and it is a leg-related injury so wasn't a great idea to be working any hours but I thought it would be fine.
For the first week, it was fine, I was mainly doing the easier jobs you can do sitting down and just helping during the rushes so I wasn't useless and I wasn't straining my injury too much.
The next week I was working triple my regular hours while understaffed since the business is too stingy to hire people and was just told to rest for a minute every hour or so for my injury. Week 1 and Week 2 are working in different branches which is partly why the treatment was so different.
Note that the owners are literal multi-millionaires with heavy investment in real estate and other things, even the 'poorest' is measured in the tens of millions but they can't afford to hire new staff, rely on wage subsidies, and underpay current staff.
I was getting paid about 1/3 of minimum wage with the only benefit being flexible working hours, if you are wondering why I would ever work this, I simply had no other choice due to financial hardship, and regardless of what people say, finding work is hard.
Due to my injury, I can't work anything overly physical for a few months, thankfully I can barely scrape by even after quitting for the time being. Sadly can't report for wage theft as it's 'off the books' and due to other factors could cause a lot of trouble if found out.