Somewhere there is a contract specifying the amount the corporation will pay and the worker will receive for an hour of work. It is the violation of this contra

Somewhere there is a contract specifying the amount the corporation will pay and the worker will receive for an hour of work. It is the violation of this contract which makes it theft. This is also what makes driving someone else's car away, taking their wallet, or moving into their house theft. If someone walks off with your wallet, it isn't that you've misunderstood the legal conditions of your ownership of that wallet. The problem, in other words, is not in your understanding.