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    Picking Pockets for Profit: Wage Theft and the Fair Labor Standards Act

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    Date
    2011
    Author
    Miloser, Susan
    Subject
    Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (United States)
    Minimum wage
    Overtime -- Law and legislation
    Piecework
    Working poor
    Washington and Lee University -- Capstone in Shepherd Poverty Program
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    Susan J. Miloser is a member of the Class of 2012 of Washington and Lee University School of Law.
     
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    I will start with a brief history of the FLSA and the purposes for the legislation. I will also outline wage and hour requirements under the FLSA, the remedies available to workers when an employer fails to satisfy those requirements, and whistleblower protections. Next is a subsection entitled: How do Employers Steal Wages? In this section I will highlight the misclassification of employees and some of the other most common ways in which employers steal from workers. While wage theft occurs at every level of employment, this paper will concentrate on theft from lowwage workers. A section entitled: Who is Most Vulnerable to Wage Theft? will tell the stories of several groups of workers, predominately women and minorities, who often find themselves the victims of some of the most egregious acts of wage theft. In this section, I will briefly bring to light the racialized and genderized history of federal wage and hour legislation. I will show that a binary system of wage protection continues to exist that leaves certain populations particularly susceptible to wage and hour violations and, at the same time, allows exploitative employers to prosper -- contrary to the purposes of the FLSA. Finally, I will suggest some measures that should be taken in order to combat wage theft, focusing on wage and hour violations that occur among the least protected. [From Introduction]
     
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