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Kim Bobo, IWJ executive director and author of Wage Theft in America, says wage theft is the crime wave no one talks about.
Its really all around us. There are workers who are not getting paid minimum wage, not paid overtime, [are] misclassified as independent contractors (so employers can avoid having to pay benefits), who dont get all their tips. Some workers get laid off and dont get their last paycheck. For some workers, they work all day and dont get paid at all.
A new report, issued earlier this week, backs up IWJs findings. Nearly half of immigrant day laborers surveyed in New Jersey were not paid for all the work they completed, according to the report by the Seton Hall Law Schools Center for Social Justice. Some 48 percent of the immigrant day laborers surveyed in seven New Jersey towns reported experiencing at least one instance over the past year in which they were not paid for all the work they had done, and more than half (54 percent) said they had been paid less than promised.
In addition, nearly all of the day laborers (94 percent) said they were not paid overtime, the report found. Bryan Lonegan, Seton Hall law professor and co-author of the report, All Work and No Pay: Day Laborers, Wage Theft, and Workplace Justice in New Jersey, said in a statement:
Unfortunately, immigrant day laborers are just the highly visible tip of the iceberg because wage theft and labor violations happen all the time in restaurants, gas stations, home health care, janitorial, laundries, car washes and beauty and nail salons.
Wage Theft: The Crime Wave Nobody Talks About | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
Its really all around us. There are workers who are not getting paid minimum wage, not paid overtime, [are] misclassified as independent contractors (so employers can avoid having to pay benefits), who dont get all their tips. Some workers get laid off and dont get their last paycheck. For some workers, they work all day and dont get paid at all.
A new report, issued earlier this week, backs up IWJs findings. Nearly half of immigrant day laborers surveyed in New Jersey were not paid for all the work they completed, according to the report by the Seton Hall Law Schools Center for Social Justice. Some 48 percent of the immigrant day laborers surveyed in seven New Jersey towns reported experiencing at least one instance over the past year in which they were not paid for all the work they had done, and more than half (54 percent) said they had been paid less than promised.
In addition, nearly all of the day laborers (94 percent) said they were not paid overtime, the report found. Bryan Lonegan, Seton Hall law professor and co-author of the report, All Work and No Pay: Day Laborers, Wage Theft, and Workplace Justice in New Jersey, said in a statement:
Unfortunately, immigrant day laborers are just the highly visible tip of the iceberg because wage theft and labor violations happen all the time in restaurants, gas stations, home health care, janitorial, laundries, car washes and beauty and nail salons.
Wage Theft: The Crime Wave Nobody Talks About | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG