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Wage theft is the biggest crime by annual losses (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/60084810

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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Labour value theft(profit) is and will always be the bigger crime.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah this reads weird... the wording sounds like "employees stealing from employers", but the graph references things like "minimum-wage violations", which implies "employers stealing from employees" (a form of labour value theft)...

    Yet overtime violations and rest-break violations could be people not being paid for OT or given mandated breaks, or it could be people claiming OT they didn't work, or taking longer breaks than agreed upon ?!

    In this case I think "Data Is Confusing" may be more accurate than "Data Is Beautiful."

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    "Wage theft" is defined as the theft of wages by employers, and it's actually a crime in several states. "Minimum Wage Violations" would be people being paid less than minimum wage, "Overtime Violations" would be people not being paid overtime, "Rest Break Violations" would be people not receiving breaks, and "Off The Clock Violations" would be people working without getting paid.

    Pretty sure claiming hours you didn't work would be considered some form of fraud, but I don't see any kind of fraud listed on this graphic.

    EDIT: Of course, theft of labor value would dwarf all of this, but capitalists don't see that as theft.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    Ahh! Ok, my bad - I don't hear it often, so I got them mixed up - the other, that some capitalist opinion-piece writing bags of shit were complaining about a lot over the last few years is referred to as "time theft." (Took some tricky search-fu to find it)

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