States, particularly in the South, have abandoned or nearly abandoned efforts to enforce their wage and hour laws that require payment of overtime and/or the minimum wage, as reported in Politico, Minimum Wage Large Unenforced.
Wage theft is not a new problem, as we've discussed before here, Wage theft is wage theft and "What a thief does with his loot is immaterial to the victim's claim against him"; Wage Theft - The Good Guys Win One in Braun v Walmart, and at www.RobertAbellLaw.com: Wage Theft and Lexington's New Minimum Wage Law; Unpaid Wages and Wage Theft; Wage Theft - 9 out of 10 Fast Food Workers Are Victims; Working Off the Clock & Wage Theft: Inside the McDonald's Suits.
