A lot of this pertains to minimum wage jobs. I consider it wage theft if the company is understaffed and causes employees to work multiple jobs in order to fill multiple positions for lack of workers. If this happens at a job, whether employees are out sick or quit altogether, the other employees filling in and doing both their work and the other worker's should get compensated pay because they are now working two jobs at once more than their original job title and job training requirements. They should compensate work that is doubled on the worker. If you run a company and you only pay an employee minimum wage level and expect that employee to fill in the gap for one or more potential employees, your company should be ashamed and lawsuits should be filed against it. For example, an employee was out of work today. I'm a janitor at a multilevel building. I normally have my own floor and it takes a while to complete for a single person. I had to do their job while they were out plus my floor. Instead of two bathrooms, I had 4. Instead of 50 offices, I had 20 extra plus getting all the trash out of each floor and having it out. This also includes keeping an eye on them all day and still having to wipe down surfaces and change garbage cans as needed. I am only getting paid $10 per hour and I get paid $10 no matter how much extra work is piled onto my schedule that day and, still, I get micromanaged if I don't do them all right. I think that's wrong.