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I'm sure a key to this is that unpaid W-2 income also means unpaid income taxes. It's vigorous in Virginia as well: the state has a unit with totally humorless
by hga 11y ago
I'm sure a key to this is that unpaid W-2 income also means unpaid income taxes.
It's vigorous in Virginia as well: the state has a unit with totally humorless employees who've heard it all and are highly motivated and competent at helping you squeeze your back wages out of your deadbeat ex-employer. Or so was my experience in 1997 which I and 12 or so other employees of a startup resigned one day due to devil investors.
Others have noted sqldba might have been a contractor, but it sure sounds like he was being treated as an employee. That can be addressed by reporting it to the IRS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misclassification_of_employees_as_independent_contractors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misclassification_of_employees...
- jbooth 11y agoJust throwing it out there, it's remotely possible that state governments make this a priority because it is actually one of the moral underpinnings of a market economy and needs to be enforced. Litigating is very expensive, I doubt that the increased tax revenue on W2s from those cases pays off -- it's the overall effect on societal norms that matters, everyone on this thread immediately said "You should have gotten that money".