Economic Report: Low Wage Workers Hit Hard By Payroll Illegalities

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11876

Economic Report:

A survey of workers in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago revealed that low wage workers on average lost 15 percent of the previous week’s pay through wage violations. On average these workers only make $339 per week. The study financed by the Ford, Joyce, Haynes, and Russell Sage Foundations also revealed that only 8 percent of low wage workers who are injured on the job file for compensation. Seventy six percent of those surveyed were not paid for overtime they worked the week before the survey.