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Wage Theft, Class Actions, Immigrant Rights Teddy Basham-Witherington Wage Theft, Class Actions, Immigrant Rights Teddy Basham-Witherington

Isabel's Story: Justice In The Face of Wage Theft

After a few weeks, all of us working on the night cleaning shift realized there were problems. The man who hired us stopped coming to work and did not pay us on time. When we tried to contact him, he refused to answer our calls. A supervisor from another company came and told us to keep working, promising that we would be paid. We were all eager to keep working and earning money, but the pay checks weren’t coming...

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