Wage theft: His paycheck bounced. It got worse from there.\n

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Humberto, a 45-year-old electrician, was working 10 hours a day, six days a week when he learned that his $1,250 paycheck had bounced. His ongoing struggle to get an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work is familiar to many other wage theft victims.

May 4, 2021 GMT

On a Tuesday afternoon last June, Humberto was yanking old wires from the walls of a middle school in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, when his cellphone rang. And so began Humberto’s thus far unsuccessful quest to get an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work — a struggle familiar to many other victims of wage theft who battle for months or years for the money they’re due.

Finally, he asked them. Some co-workers said they hadn’t been paid in weeks; others in more than a month. Their lawyer filed the paperwork in federal court in early December. There was just one problem: They couldn’t find the co-owner of the company, Erick Mata, to serve him the documents. They had 120 days to do it. After that, the court summons would expire and a judge could throw out the case.

 

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The check probably bounced because the small business that was paying him can’t afford to keep up because TheDemocrats try to control the free market by setting higher minimum wages. Just saying…

Which is why having such a huge population of undocumented immigrants is a problem. They have less recourse!

The US Army did it to me, I was a highly experienced aviation mechanic crew chief earning poverty wages living in a trailer park slum and driving a turd of a car.

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So if the IRS is 70 million claims behind in 2020 that represents about 150 million American's. Most are waiting on stimulus checks, or adjustments. Is the US Government out of money?

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