When Employers Steal Wages from Workers
By
Alejandro Lazo, Jeanne Kuang, Lil Kalish, Agnes Lee and Erica Yee/CalMatters
on
July 26, 2022 at 1:00PM
Last year, California made most wage theft a criminal offense. It also did away with the garment industry’s system of paying workers by the piece instead of by the hour.