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MN House Democrats introduce bill to combat “wage theft” by employers

January 12, 2019 By Bill Werner

Democrats in the Minnesota House introduced a bill this week to crack down on what’s termed “wage theft” by employers.  Saint Paul Representative Tim Mahoney says, “In this state if you steal from a bank, you go to jail, [but] if you steal from your employees, you go to the Bahamas.”  Mahoney says “wage theft” takes the form of not paying wages or commissions, or not reimbursing employees for legitimate expenses. He says 99.9 percent of employers are good, but despite that 40-thousand employees have money stolen from them every year in Minnesota. Mahoney says the state Department of Labor and Industry can only help about two thousand and his bill would give that agency necessary tools to address the problem.

 

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