部份摘要:
The problem has been exacerbated by systemic inadequacies within the legal system that fail to reflect the realities of wage theft in the new economy. One example of these inadequacies was the Illinois Department of Labor’s lack of authority to enforce wage laws when unscrupulous employers violated these laws. If individuals under investigation for wage theft by the department ignored the department, the department’s only recourse was to close the case and send it to the attorney general’s office for enforcement. If that office decided to pursue the case, it would have to file a complaint in state court and begin enforcement essentially de novo. The attorney general’s office also has limited resources and cannot possibly pursue a significant number of wage-theft claims against employers who blithely ignore the labor department
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