A study of low-wage workers in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles shows more than three-quarters of full-time staffers who did overtime weren’t paid for it and one quarter weren’t even paid the minimum wage. Without major structural reform and significantly increased resources for investigation and enforcement, wage theft will continue to be a reality for far too many workers.
Does the system encourage employers to take from their workers’ paychecks?
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