I had a boss that owns a chain of "local" pet supply stores in New Mexico. He would demand that we came in early and worked on getting the store opened up off the clock. It wasn't until the front doors opened that we were allowed to clock in. Refusing to do so resulted in my hours being altered. I wasn't sure that was legal, and eventually I quit over it. Us workers were making barely above minimum wage, and most people needed money so bad they were willing to put up with it in order to not get in trouble.
It's such a sleazy move that I bet most small-scale retail stores pull on their employees.
EDIT: Since I guess it's not hard to figure out the business, and to prevent a spike in pitchfork distribution, I will say that this was several years ago, and I can't speak for how things are now.
I worked for a major financial company that defined wage theft as stealing company time (ie taking too long a break, surfing web on company time,etc). I've never seen it defined as labour code violations before. Hmmmmm... really makes you think....
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kscholten on November 20th, 2017 at 20:15 UTC »
I'm interested in seeing how much is stolen by way of misappropriated safety deposits from landlords
cheeba_inu on November 20th, 2017 at 21:15 UTC »
I had a boss that owns a chain of "local" pet supply stores in New Mexico. He would demand that we came in early and worked on getting the store opened up off the clock. It wasn't until the front doors opened that we were allowed to clock in. Refusing to do so resulted in my hours being altered. I wasn't sure that was legal, and eventually I quit over it. Us workers were making barely above minimum wage, and most people needed money so bad they were willing to put up with it in order to not get in trouble.
It's such a sleazy move that I bet most small-scale retail stores pull on their employees.
EDIT: Since I guess it's not hard to figure out the business, and to prevent a spike in pitchfork distribution, I will say that this was several years ago, and I can't speak for how things are now.
MonsieurLeDrole on November 20th, 2017 at 21:37 UTC »
I worked for a major financial company that defined wage theft as stealing company time (ie taking too long a break, surfing web on company time,etc). I've never seen it defined as labour code violations before. Hmmmmm... really makes you think....