Comments on: Chicago needs to better enforce labor ordinances, aldermen and advocates say https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-needs-to-better-enforce-labor-ordinances-aldermen-and-advocates-say/ Investigating race and poverty since 1972 Sat, 25 Feb 2017 00:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian Lee https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-needs-to-better-enforce-labor-ordinances-aldermen-and-advocates-say/#comment-11775 Sat, 25 Feb 2017 00:21:00 +0000 http://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=1067827#comment-11775 In the UK wage theft came with Mrs Thatcher and .com and the Spread Sheet, no one writes a loss making Spread sheet, do they?. I would say 2016 had been my worst year since 1982, at one point I thought I was part of a sketch for a real life adaptation of Animal farm, not helped by the pink hi-vis stood in front of me, the sound of a clapper board would have been a needed distraction to what was actually going on. In the UK line managers have to protect the Spreadsheet, their bonus relies on it. Trying to get to them has gotten people arrested, these people will blacklist you across the country in one email.

]]> By: AnnFeeney https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-needs-to-better-enforce-labor-ordinances-aldermen-and-advocates-say/#comment-11773 Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:29:00 +0000 http://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=1067827#comment-11773 It seems as though the lack of enforcement all but suggests that employers go ahead and give under-paying their workers a try. They have nothing to lose, if the most significant penalty they face is simply having to pay the money that they owe their workers in the first place.

Now, if there were significant fines, based on the size of the business, how much money it owes its workers, and whether it’s a first offense or repeated, that would even pay a considerable portion of the costs of enforcement.

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