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In Minnesota wage theft is a felony, and the state just got it's first conviction. (www.mprnews.org)

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Six years after a new law made wage theft a felony in Minnesota, our state has its first wage theft conviction.

Frederick Leon Newell will be sentenced in June for stealing $35,000 dollars from five workers he employed as a painting contractor for a Minneapolis affordable housing development.

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[–] freshcow@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More of this, please

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Right! Every employer knowingly partakes in some form of wage theft. It just comes down to what each sides definitions of wage theft. I argue all profits not paid out to those who generated said profits is theft. Unpaid taxes is a form of wage theft as well. In my opinion.