First wage theft conviction in Minnesota punishes contractor for underpaying workers
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Frederick Leon Newell will be sentenced in June for stealing $35,000 dollars from five workers he employed as a painting contractor for a Minneapolis affordable housing development.

Six years after a new law made wage theft a felony in Minnesota, our state has its first wage theft conviction.

Frederick Leon Newell will be sentenced in June for stealing $35,000 dollars from five workers he employed as a painting contractor for a Minneapolis affordable housing development.

    • NatakuNox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Right! Every employer knowingly partakes in some form of wage theft. It just comes down to what each sides definitions of wage theft. I argue all profits not paid out to those who generated said profits is theft. Unpaid taxes is a form of wage theft as well. In my opinion.