{"id":10729,"date":"2023-05-19T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10729"},"modified":"2023-05-19T16:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:04:42","slug":"bidens-nominee-for-secretary-of-labor-wants-wage-theft-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10729","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Nominee for Secretary of Labor Wants &#8216;Wage Theft&#8217; Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;&#8221;Wage theft&#8221; is a catch-all term for not paying workers what they are owed under the law, such as violating minimum wage or overtime regulations. It is a crime under the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/whd\/whd20230103-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fair Labor Standards Act<\/a>&nbsp;and is enforced by the Labor Department&#8217;s Wage and Hour Division. It can involve business owners sneakily ripping off employees. It can also result from honest confusion or mistakes regarding what is owed.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/04\/20\/bidens-nominee-for-secretary-of-labor-wants-wage-theft-cops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/04\/20\/bidens-nominee-for-secretary-of-labor-wants-wage-theft-cops\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;Wage theft&#8221; is a catch-all term for not paying workers what they are owed under the law, such as violating minimum wage or overtime regulations. It is a crime under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is enforced by the Labor Department&#8217;s Wage and Hour Division. It can involve business owners sneakily ripping off employees. It can also result from honest confusion or mistakes regarding what is owed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[780,1449,551,506,1036,1139],"class_list":["post-10729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-joe-biden","tag-labor","tag-regulations","tag-republicans","tag-theft","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10730,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions\/10730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}