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by DoingIsLearning 1309 days ago
> Wage theft is committed by millions of employers...

Yes, and of those there are a handful doing it to millions of employees. Wage theft is not a few night shifts rounded off at SMEs. Plenty of traded companies doing it, no reason why you cannot target low numbers of big fish.

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> there are a handful doing it to millions of employees

Has someone credibly identified them?

Both Walmart and Amazon are notorious for disregarding minimum wage laws as an example of 'big fish'. With the fines usually applied this is just the price of doing business for these companies.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/275064-supreme-...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/2/22262294/amazon-flex-wage-...