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Wage Theft

Employers violate wage laws in various ways. Employers steal workers’ labor by failing to pay for all hours worked, not paying minimum wage or overtime, making illegal deductions from pay, and misclassifying employees as independent contractors, among other things.   CLS assists workers who are victims of wage theft by advocating on behalf of workers with…

PA must address epidemic of wage theft and workplace exploitation by modernizing wage laws

Pennsylvania’s wage laws have not been updated in decades. Meanwhile workplace practices have changed, with more subcontracting of work and more misclassification of workers as “independent contractors.” And the wage theft epidemic rages on. The PA Department of Labor and Industry (PALI) can and must issue regulations interpreting our existing laws to address the realities…