If a worker steals something from her employer, she is fired, arrested and jailed. The state will prosecute for the employer, and if she is convicted she faces expensive jail time paid for by taxpayers. Because she stole.
If an employer steals from all its workers, it might have to pay something if the workers can afford to sue. The employer faces no jail time. Because it was a civil affair.
“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.” Anatole France