gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agoTexas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints - State labor investigators struggle to process more and more paycheck complaints, with millions of dollars in workers’ pay at stake.www.texasobserver.orgexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1375arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1372arrow-down1external-linkTexas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints - State labor investigators struggle to process more and more paycheck complaints, with millions of dollars in workers’ pay at stake.www.texasobserver.orggAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 months agoMaybe they should hire more agents, and use the fines they collect from all the criminal employers to pay for it
minus-squareWashedupcynic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 months agoAs a former Texas resident, (spent 3 years in Dallas,) I can tell you that as a whole the state would rather police a woman’s uterus than capitalism and employers.
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months ago“As a whole” is the problem. Texas is really five different states, staple-gunned together.
minus-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·3 months agoThey’ll fine the workers instead, and give it to the corporations to soothe their hurt feelings.
Maybe they should hire more agents, and use the fines they collect from all the criminal employers to pay for it
As a former Texas resident, (spent 3 years in Dallas,) I can tell you that as a whole the state would rather police a woman’s uterus than capitalism and employers.
“As a whole” is the problem. Texas is really five different states, staple-gunned together.
They’ll fine the workers instead, and give it to the corporations to soothe their hurt feelings.