<story><title>Wage Theft Is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)</title><url>https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sampleinajar</author><text>For most of my adult life, I worked hourly jobs in low pay positions and &amp;quot;wage theft&amp;quot; always meant me, the employee, stealing from the company by not working every single second I was there. Interesting to see it defined the other way, &amp;quot;employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wage Theft Is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)</title><url>https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dec0dedab0de</author><text>This reminded me of an hourly job I had where I was expected to be there 15 minutes early, then I got in trouble for clocking in as soon as I sat down. I just told my supervisor and manager that if I&amp;#x27;m there I&amp;#x27;m clocking in.  After that, I had permission to show up late.</text></comment>