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Odd, if a worker had stolen that much money from the business they’d likely be looking at jail time, not just being asked to pay it back.
by jgeada 3y ago
Odd, if a worker had stolen that much money from the business they’d likely be looking at jail time, not just being asked to pay it back.
- gliixo 3y agoSeriously these fucks need to start seeing the inside of a cell
- staplers 3y agoAs with police, the law prioritizes property, commerce, and order.
- hapless 3y agoPolice exist to enforce a notion of "order" based on extremely specific notions of property and class relations That said, I am not seeing the relevance to the originally posted article. This is an example of the law actually working against the structures police forces were created to enforce
- NikkiA 3y agoOr to put it another way, the police exist to ensure everyone knows their place, and stays in their lane.
- ars 3y agoYou have to prove it was stolen, not just a mistake, miscalculation, accident, lost mail, and a blizzard of other possibilities. You can't just "know it", you have to prove it.
- clipsy 3y agoJudging by how easily shoplifters are convicted, it would appear you can just "know it" when the crime is property theft. No one gets off the hook by claiming they "accidentally" stuffed a bunch of expensive goods in their coat and walked out the door; no one should get off the hook by claiming they "accidentally" refused to pay their employees.
- Brigand 3y agoWhere do you live that shoplifters are easily convicted?
- cheeetohs 3y agoThe trouble is that, much like identity theft, wage theft isn’t theft, nor is it much alike to theft. It’s still bad of course (worse than property theft). You aren’t proving that a physical item that should be in one location has in fact been moved to another. You’re proving that the reason some dollars haven’t been moved from one place to another is that the perpetrator intended to withhold those dollars. That could be changed though. Criminalize the simple fact of underpayment, as opposed to requiring intent, and I imagine wage theft would rates would go down? …But beware unintended consequences. You don’t necessarily want to throw the neighborhood baker into jail because she bounced a paycheck.
- dTal 3y agoTheft of a physical object must also be intentional. Wage theft is very much alike to theft, although it would be more properly termed "labor theft".
- ajhurliman 3y agoI thought this was sarcasm at first but I’m genuinely not sure now: Do you truly believe shoplifters are easily and often prosecuted, let alone convicted? Personally, I’ve never seen or heard of a single person have any repercussions for shoplifting, and I’ve seen a _lot_ of shoplifting in Seattle.