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/agenci

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).