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How A Giant Restaurant Conglomerate Teamed Up With Banks To Stiff Its Workers

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The struggling corporate giant behind The Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, and other national restaurant chains is forcing tens of thousands of workers to effectively pay rent on their own money. Workers at Darden Restaurants chains are routinely told they must accept prepaid debit cards instead of paychecks, according to a new report from the worker …

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Strangers Raise Money For Walmart Worker Fired For Picking Up Cans

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When a parking lot attendant dared to recycle trash he picked up outside an upstate New York Walmart, the store fired him. Now generous strangers are trying to help cushion his sudden fall. Thomas Smith, 52, had been earning $9 an hour at an upstate New York Walmart for less than three months when his …

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California Labor Ruling Deals A Blow To Uber’s Strategy For Denying Drivers Benefits

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Uber must pay its drivers benefits, overtime, working expenses, and other standard compensation that the company has thus far avoided providing, the California Labor Commission has ruled. The decision is not self-executing across the state and can only be directly applied in one specific driver’s case. But it signals to the company’s other employees that …

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After Ruling That McDonald’s Can’t Pay Workers In Bank Cards, The Bank Pays Up

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Paying employees through prepaid debit cards that incur fees when workers try to withdraw their cash is illegal in Pennsylvania, a judge ruled Tuesday. The lawsuit targeting a McDonald’s franchisee in the eastern-central part of the state has already prompted a powerful Wall Street bank to voluntarily give money back, a lawyer for the plaintiffs …

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The Bizarre, Shania Twain-Based Argument For Keeping McDonald’s Wages Low

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It’s a good thing for pop music, honky-tonk feminism, and Canadian tax collectors that McDonald’s pays lousy wages. If the food stores paid their frontline workers enough to survive on, Shania Twain would still be working there, a shareholder claimed at the company’s annual meeting this week. The unidentified man, who said he’d been a …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

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