{"id":2706,"date":"2023-02-21T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/what-are-the-five-most-common-forms-of-wage-theft\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T13:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:53:31","slug":"what-are-the-five-most-common-forms-of-wage-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/what-are-the-five-most-common-forms-of-wage-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the five most common forms of wage theft?"},"content":{"rendered":"
For many companies, paying their employees y is one of their most significant expenses, which creates an incentive to reduce employee time card hours, withdraw benefits, and lower labor costs. The term “wage theft” refers to when workers are paid less than they have legitimately earned.<\/span><\/p>\n Five of the most common forms of wage theft:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n What to do against wage theft?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n You can start protecting yourself against wage theft on the first day of work. Keep track of the dates you worked, the hours you worked, and the times you took your breaks. Check this information against your salary, and make sure you receive what is stipulated in your contract.<\/span><\/p>\n If you think you are being scammed, you can try to resolve it with your boss. If it’s an honest mistake, it could correct things. But for many employers, wage theft is part of their business model. You may be able to file a lawsuit against your employer to collect compensation for unpaid wages and additional damages with an employment attorney.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For many companies, paying their employees y is one of their most significant expenses, which creates an incentive to reduce employee time card hours, withdraw benefits, and lower labor costs. The term “wage theft” refers to when workers are paid less than they have legitimately earned. Five of the most common forms of wage theft: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forallworkers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n