• themeatbridge
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    1748 months ago

    DWD determined that the 11 were owed $8,230 altogether. The lawsuit states Kruk’s failure to pay the back wages was “willful” and qualifies for a penalty of an additional 100% of the unpaid wages.

    Bro could have made this go away for $17,000 but instead chose to commit blatant fraud. He really ought to lose everything.

    • @assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world
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      928 months ago

      If there is justice in the world the system would now just seize the new business and hand all its assets to the employees to start a workers coop.

      • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        If there was justice the owner would be getting arrested for theft.

        Edit- for clarity

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]
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      248 months ago

      But they also got rid of the union in this process as well, presumably, which would cost them money by reducing how much wages they could steal from workers.

      • @AliasAKA@lemmy.world
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        98 months ago

        Well, except defrauding the finding that you pay back wages and reinstate (with union) the employees you fired probably means you still gotta reinstate them and allow them to keep a union. And now you have a very hostile workforce who will all but ensure any new hires are pulled into the union. So really just a colossal mistake as far as I can tell.