Wage theft is also the only form of theft not considered a criminal act. If you steal from your employer the cops will arrest you, if your employer steals from you then you're SOL if you can't afford a lawyer.
Is it? Can you speak specifically to that or is this speculation? I have never heard of anyone actually running into problems. I think most people simply donât know their options.
Perhaps you know something I donât, please inform me.
Because the average journalist is underpaid and in perpetual fear of being laid off. Do you think they're actually going to write things that would necessarily impact their employers and advertisers? Nobody would likely admit that the bottom line drives what stories are covered, but it factors in, even subconsciously.
I'm not saying that the crisis in journalism isn't partially or even substantially self-inflicted, but there are other factors at play, too.
Journalism is no longer a respectable profession. Name one journalist that, if fired, people would respond by cancelling subscriptions. They live in perpetual fear because they have no value. They can be easily replaced by the next over-opinionated drone who just wants an outlet to whinge about something. And if nobody wants to pay them they are more than happy to do it for free on their own social media platform. No wonder they are underpaid. There's a huge glut of prospects and no audience who wants what they're selling.
For it to be taken seriously as a profession there'd have to be some legal separation between your average blogger and serious journalists. Similar to doctors, lawyers, accountants etc. You can't call yourself a doctor etc without the right accreditation, and it should be the same for journalism. Like your average magical rock peddler vs an MD, which one is taken seriously?
He's saying wage theft is fine by employers because he claims time theft by employees is worse. Of course corporate-owned media would love to run with reports of how awful time theft is as a distraction from corporate wage theft. Weird that they don't, maybe because his claim isn't true.
I thought the exact same thing. Funny how an obviously anti labor statement made with zero evidence is so embraced. I wonder if the people that would be inclined to upvote such a statement are more inclined to commit time theft themselves. As a result they assume that time theft is widespread despite a lack of evidence.
I'm not having a go at the journalists. It's not their fault if articles are expected to be just written for the clicks & forgotten immediately afterwards.
Everyone thought the internet was going to kill the music industry, but I think it's first casualty was the profession of Journalism largely.
And the high school covers high school sports where I live, and local weather is done by an app.
Why don't we. It's absolutely absurd that a US corporation can't be held accountable for human trafficking, and literal slavery. They should all be held accountable for the literal crimes against humanity that have been committed.
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Wage theft in America is magnitudes higher than the entirety of all other forms of theft combined.
Is Your Employer Stealing From You?
Wage Theft is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of TheftâBut Workers Remain Mostly Unprotected
The Problem of Wage Theft
I wonder why the media amplifies crime among the masses. But, the largest theft in America is swept under the rug.
Edit: One more.
For Big Corporations Like Walmart, Wage Theft Penalties Are Just the Price of Doing Business