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Papa John’s Franchisee Faces Jail Time Over Stealing Workers’ Wages

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On Wednesday, the owner of nine Papa John’s franchises in New York City pled guilty to the first criminal case brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman against a fast food franchisee over wage theft. According to court documents, including company records obtained by the attorney general’s office, Abdul Jamil Khokhar, the franchisee, and …

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Workers Sue Walmart For Manipulating Employee Classification To Deny Them Overtime Pay

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Walmart is facing a potential class action lawsuit over alleged wage theft in Alameda County Superior Court from an employee who claims the company illegally denied managers overtime pay. Bonnie Cardoza, who worked at the company as an assistant manager for about five years, says she and other assistant mangers were made to do the …

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The buck starts here: Living wages and sustainable employment (Part II)

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The massive push toward subcontracting and supply chains I wrote about in my prior post didn’t happen overnight, and it certainly won’t be fixed overnight either. There are many pieces to this puzzle, all in the service of one big overarching principle: Lead companies must take their fair share of responsibility for the pain and …

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Will the “real” employer please stand up? The consequences of the global shift to subcontracting, franchising, and outsourcing (Part I)

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A fundamental change has taken place in the American workplace, and we are only now beginning to realize just how monumental it is. A new book, The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can be Done About It, by David Weil, makes the case that in every corner of …

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Florida County Makes It Easier For Workers To Get Unpaid Wages From Bosses

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Workers who get cheated out of their due pay in central Florida will have a much easier time recovering what they’re owed after Osceola County approved a tough new wage theft law, making it the latest in a string of local governments to take on increased responsibility for enforcing federal wage and hour laws. Under …

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Why the New Law Combating Wage Theft in Chicago is a Big Deal

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In a win for local workers, last week Illinois’s Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed what workers’ advocates say is one of the strongest ordinances to combat wage theft to date in the U.S. The Cook County Wage Theft Ordinance aims to punish companies guilty of shortchanging their workers by taking away lucrative county …

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The Supreme Court Just Rejected A Wage Theft Suit Against Amazon. What Does It Mean For Other Workers?

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Retail warehouses don’t have to pay workers for the time they spend in security screenings to make sure they’re not stealing, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a unanimous decision that reverses a lower court’s finding that workers must be paid for that time. The ruling is a blow to wage theft claims by the …

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“When we are united we can do anything”- Workers React to Wage Theft Prevention Act Victory

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On Friday, Mayor Gray signed the Wage Theft Prevention Act of 2014. Click here to see the bill or here for a marked up version of the DC Code that shows the changes that will be made once the legislation goes into effect in late November or early December. The legislation was passed after years of organizing, strategizing and …

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AFL-CIO Stands with NFL Cheerleader and Oakland Raiderette Lacy T.

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Cheerleading for professional sports is more than sporting sparkly midriff-baring tops, white cowboy boots and zipping off to calendar shoots…it’s a job. And it’s demanding. Between mandatory practices, public appearances, strict image guidelines that require lots of money for upkeep and performing at the games, it’s a lot of hard work. Generally people are paid …

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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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