It's Shockingly Easy For Your Boss To Steal From You And Get Away With It | HuffPost - 0 views
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In 2017, the Economic Policy Institute found that 17% of low-income workers were earning less than the minimum wage due to skimming by their employers.
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A 2009 survey carried out in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago found that three-quarters of low-wage workers weren’t compensated at a higher rate for overtime.
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Though the vast majority of wage theft goes unreported, the $933 million recovered by workers in court settlements in 2012 amounted to three times the cost of all robberies combined.
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