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Start sending manager and hr to jail for wage theft. If an employee falsified timesheets they can and have been convicted of theft. Why isn’t the reverse tru
by adrr 4y ago
Start sending manager and hr to jail for wage theft. If an employee falsified timesheets they can and have been convicted of theft. Why isn’t the reverse true?
Jail is a huge motivating factor and why you don’t see wide spread accounting fraud in public companies.
- nouveaux 4y agoThat's probably not a path you want to go down. Do we start putting employees in jail for wage theft?
- atomicnumber3 4y agoYes, at appropriate levels. I worked in several regulated financial institutions. Every year it was part of compliance training to be reminded that if you notice, for instance, money laundering or financial fraud, you can be personally liable and go to jail. This isn't a new concept at all. Professional engineers have similar levels of risk if they breach ethics, though I don't know if it's criminal or just self regulatory and civil.
- hardolaf 4y agoYup. When I worked in the defense industry, even as an unlicensed engineer, I was bound by threat of prosecution to report a wide category of violations. Per our agreement with the US DoD, even workplace injuries which could impact our readiness fell under this definition. Now that I'm over in the finance space, if I ever notice anything suggesting a financial crime, I am required by law to report it.
- driverdan 4y agoYes. Theft is a crime regardless of how it's done.
- adrr 4y agoWe already put people in jail for false timesheets. Wage theft is in the billions . https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/nsa-contractor-pleads-guilty-submitting-false-timesheets https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/nsa-contractor-pleads-gui...
- Xeoncross 4y agoNo, you should quit instead. Making offering not enough money to someone a criminal offense sounds like a dangerous ground to stand on.
- lp0_on_fire 4y agoIt's not about "offering" enough money it's about companies that are deliberately classifying employees as "managers" when they're anything but for the purposes of avoiding having to pay the employees overtime.
- Xeoncross 4y agoIt's just semantics, you're not compelled to stay and work for someone who is low-balling you.
- willcipriano 4y agoThe people aren't compelled to let you to continue to peaceably do business in their country if you don't wish to follow their laws.
- NegativeK 4y agoEmployers can just fire people who falsify time sheets. Or take money from the register.
- adrr 4y agoAnd they can have the employee prosecuted. Just let the inverse happen when employers steal from employees.
- LawTalkingGuy 4y agoThe classification fraud is a crime. It's also tax fraud because you're understating proper income partly to avoid paying taxes on it. This is far from simply offering a low wage from the beginning.
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- syndacks 4y agoWhy not simply execute the criminals?