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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

Washington and Lee Law Review

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 …


Aronson V. Quick Point Pencil Company, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1978

Aronson V. Quick Point Pencil Company, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

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