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In my country (small, part of EU) We have system in place, if you're full-time employee (something like US salary), and your company doesn't send you your salar

In my country (small, part of EU) We have system in place, if you're full-time employee (something like US salary), and your company doesn't send you your salary, you have an option to report them to certain bureau and they will push this company into insolvency mode, after that company must fight this at the court. (start paying or go under) Yes, even one person, if not paid, can do it to 10k employees company. (And you're not involved at all, you just report it) If contractor, you have a lot less options, but still you can also report them, and it will show on their credit score. It's not public, but other companies are using services to show credit score and they will see that. Or you can sell your financial claim to other companies. I'm interested, how this works in US?

TheDong 2y ago
You report it to the department of labor. The department of labor, in theory, investigates the complaint and you'll likely get paid: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/contact/complaints https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/contact/complaints Unfortunately, the reality is much different, since the US is largely under "at-will" employment (so "full-time employee" means almost nothing), it's generally easiest for an employer to simply fire the employee and immediately shoot them under castle-doctrine for trespassing. Also, the current government won't increase DoL funding, and wage-theft complaints already often take over a year to process, with a lot of them never making it because a year is simply too long to deal with (not to mention the plaintiff has usually been shot by then).