Several of the company’s employees told the Herald-Leader in January that ARC regularly paid workers late. In Perry County, several employees reported going weeks without a paycheck.
If you want a list of examples of wage theft this is it. Not paying Min Wage. Not paying due overtime. Classifying workers incorrectly to evade labor laws. Not paying your interns. Not paying into your staffer's SS/Medicare.
It has nothing to do with increasing wages to match profits. This is when you are defrauding your staff of their contractually due salary.
Yeah you're right but you've missed the mark because it's not about the literal definition in this context its about the unfair nature of profits not being distributed fairly. That is the people in charge of valuing the work are unfairly valuing their own limited contribution above the people actually doing the thing. By looking at it in this way it can be seen as a form of theft and as the theft is happening in the form of their wages being lower than they should I don't think calling it wage theft is that big of an exaggeration from its dictionary definition.
Also you're stupid for being pedantic when big bird is right there about to make you wish for the comfort of being smug about definitions on an internet meme
The legal use doesn't change with colloquial use and definitions are kept specifically within the laws regardless of common use so it won't change any outcomes?
It's a 'boy who cried wolf' problem. If you start using the term inaccurately, at first you get lots of attention, then very quickly everyone assumes that when you say you were raped, someone actually just walked in on you in the bathroom.