Report: Pennsylvania employers stealing millions from workers every week
Every week in Pennsylvania, a troubling new report asserts, a large-scale theft takes place: Employers in the state are stealing between $19 million and $32 million from their workers.
It’s called wage theft — occurring in the form of minimum-wage violations, unpaid overtime, stolen tips, illegal pay deductions and other deliberate employer tactics.
And it regularly affects hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania employees, mainly low-wage workers who rely on every penny earned and see, on average, 15 percent of their weekly pay stolen, according to the recently issued 52-page report, titled “Shortchanged: How Wage Theft Harms Pennsylvania’s Workers and Economy.” from Temple University’s Sheller Center for Social Justice.
In the Philadelphia metropolitan area alone (including Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware and Chester counties), the report claims, an estimated 128,576 workers experience a minimum wage violation, 105,458 experience an overtime violation, and 83,344 experience an off-the-clock violation every week.
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