Texas workers' rights groups draw attention to wage theft
In an effort to bring visibility to the issue of wage theft, workers' rights groups in Texas have declared a Week of Action, according to the Public News Service.
Hector Guzman Lopez of one such organization, the Rio Grande-based Forces of the Valley Workers' Center, defined wage theft to the news source as "when a boss doesn't pay a worker minimum wage, or workers don't get paid their overtime, or they don't get paid at all."
Each of these infractions constitute a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which establishes time and attendance guidelines which all employers in the United States must keep to. Employers that disregard these requirements may be fined, ordered to pay back wages and even imprisoned, in cases involving multiple offenses.
"We are having all these actions to encourage workers to organize and recoup what they've worked for," Guzman Lopez told the news source.
A dispute involving the Texoma Council of Governments' overtime employee attendance policies recently made headlines when a 911 program manager claimed she was erroneously exempted from time-and-a-half pay, according to the Southeast Texas Record.
Hector Guzman Lopez of one such organization, the Rio Grande-based Forces of the Valley Workers' Center, defined wage theft to the news source as "when a boss doesn't pay a worker minimum wage, or workers don't get paid their overtime, or they don't get paid at all."
Each of these infractions constitute a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which establishes time and attendance guidelines which all employers in the United States must keep to. Employers that disregard these requirements may be fined, ordered to pay back wages and even imprisoned, in cases involving multiple offenses.
"We are having all these actions to encourage workers to organize and recoup what they've worked for," Guzman Lopez told the news source.
A dispute involving the Texoma Council of Governments' overtime employee attendance policies recently made headlines when a 911 program manager claimed she was erroneously exempted from time-and-a-half pay, according to the Southeast Texas Record.
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