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Company steals millions of dollars. Years later, the company agrees to give the money back, while admitting no wrongdoing. Nobody's penalized. Nobody's arrested. Nobody's prosecuted.
Why do only companies, not ordinary thieves, get to steal stuff, keep it for years, then grudgingly give it back without penalty, without arrest, without prosecution?
Wage theft is considered a civil offense in most jurisdictions, not a criminal. It's by design, things like arrests and prosecution can only happen for criminal charges.
I think NY only very recently made wage theft classify as a larceny offense, under some circumstances.
I ain't doubting you 'cuz what do I know, but making wage theft only a civil, not criminal offense, is just another example of a system stacked for the wealthy and against real people.
Because some of the money they steal gets kicked back to the legislators that should be holding them to account. How much is a congressman's favor? $10k? 100k? Not a bad price when the ROI is in the millions.
Shit was fucked, even before Trump
Damn, DoorDash is that evil huh? I rarely use it (usually just while my car is being repaired or I’m traveling) but I figured the fat tips I left them actually got to them.
DoorDash always felt sleazy af though (hence the huge tips).
Unless you're tipping cash it's not.
What about the other states?
stuff like this set the stage for teh government stuff we are seeing. When a corp can just pretend money that is not from them is paying salaries its like pretending we can just sell off all federal properties and invest it in trumpcoin.