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This week in the war on workers: Wage theft in the Senate

Here’s a good indicator of how common wage theft really is: The Labor Department announced Tuesday that federal contractors had shorted 674 Senate cafeteria workers to the tune of $1 million. Two companies, Restaurant Associates and its subcontractor, Personnel Plus, violated the law by misclassifying workers into lower-paying positions and having them work off the clock, the agency said. ​Workers in the Senate were being illegally underpaid—not below the minimum wage, in this case, but below the levels set for federal workers in specific jobs.

 

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