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Using State And Local Governments’ Purchasing Power To Combat Wage Theft, Courtlyn G. Roser-Jones Jan 2024

Using State And Local Governments’ Purchasing Power To Combat Wage Theft, Courtlyn G. Roser-Jones

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Regulatory efforts to curb wage theft are failing. And for good reason: these laws generally empower individual workers to pursue their rights when employers neglect to pay them what they are owed and deter employers with substantial penalties. But the vast majority of workers do not take formal action against their employers. So, when the penalties for committing wage theft are almost entirely triggered by claims workers do not bring, they do not deter employer behavior. Instead, because the likelihood of being penalized at all is so low, some employers make profit-maximizing decisions to commit wage theft on a large …


Court Enforcement Of Union Fines Sep 1986

Court Enforcement Of Union Fines

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Promissory Estoppel And Oral Employment Contracts Sep 1967

Promissory Estoppel And Oral Employment Contracts

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Contracts-Attempts Of Employers To Contract Against Future Competition Of Employees [A. J. Canfield Co. V. Mcgee, Ill. 1940]. Sep 1940

Contracts-Attempts Of Employers To Contract Against Future Competition Of Employees [A. J. Canfield Co. V. Mcgee, Ill. 1940].

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