By: WGAE Non-Fiction    April 22, 2014

AAA_googleWhen labor advocates and law enforcement officials talk about wage theft, they are usually referring to situations in which low-wage service-sector employees are forced to work off the clock, paid subminimum wages, cheated out of overtime pay or denied their tips. It is a huge and underpoliced problem. It is also, it turns out, not confined to low-wage workers.

In the days ahead, a settlement is expected in an antitrust lawsuit pitting 64,613 software engineers against Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe. The engineers say they lost up to $3 billion in wages from 2005-9, when the companies colluded in a scheme not to solicit one another’s employees.

When wage theft against low-wage workers is combined with that against highly paid workers, a bad problem becomes much worse.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/opinion/wage-theft-across-the-board.html?_r=0