| 单词 | wage theft |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswage theft wage theft n. a form of employment malpractice whereby an employer deprives a worker or workers of proper wages or rightful benefits, esp. through paying inordinately low salaries or failing to abide by employment law and regulations. ΚΠ 1934 Butler County (Hamilton, Ohio) Press 28 Dec. 2/1 Wage theft by employers. Wage restitutions under NRA now amount to more than $2,500,000... These restitutions represent the difference between what the workers received and what they should have been paid according to the codes under which their employers operate. 2009 K. A. Bobo Wage Theft iii. 46 The unresolved immigration issues..create an atmosphere in which immigrants are often fearful of and unwilling to complain about wage theft. 2020 Stawell (Australia) Times-News (Nexis) 11 Dec. 12 The new laws will apply to national system employers who deliberately underpay one or more workers. Employers convicted of wage theft will be disqualified from managing companies for five years. < as lemmas |
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