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Wage theft in the States and limbo at the border

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Leaving job sites empty-handed isn’t an unusual experience for immigrants, especially undocumented ones. A new online tool, ¡Reclamo!, is streamlining the process for filing official complaints and helping workers get the money they are owed. Plus, we’ll look at the economic cost of being stuck at the border while waiting for asylum.

Transcript

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Too many vulnerable people have bosses who don't pay up.

0:05.0

Well, there's an app for that.

0:08.0

I'm David Brunkaccio.

0:09.0

There are predatory employers in America who steal

0:12.0

a collective billions of dollars from worker paychecks every year

0:16.0

by withholding wages and benefits.

0:18.0

Low-wage immigrant workers are especially vulnerable.

0:21.0

And the process of getting that money back is complicated

0:24.0

and often doesn't pay off.

0:25.0

As part of our immigration series this week,

0:28.0

it replaces Elizabeth Troval reports

0:30.0

on a digital platform designed to help.

0:32.0

42-year-old Edomest Diaz knows how it feels

0:36.0

to be taken for a ride.

0:38.0

Do you know what it's like to work all day from 6 a.m.

0:44.0

with no coffee or lunch break?

0:46.0

He says, and not be able to afford the train home

0:49.0

because your boss didn't pay you.

0:52.0

That happened after a contractor didn't pay him

0:55.0

for a construction job in 2015.

0:58.0

Years after filing a department of labor complaint,

1:01.0

he is still owed thousands of dollars,

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