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Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves bust into grocery store and steal $3,000 worth of food
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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I wonder how that compares to wage theft for the same period.
In 2017 Ontario found ~60M in wage theft.
With this we can deduce that it's about 2 billion in wage theft in canada in 2017.
So not quite total offset but significant enough that this is gonna have to fall under the cost of doing business.
How is that measured exactly? If wage theft is able to be measured, then shouldn't the corporations be punished for it? Last year, Amazon stole from me by claiming I didn't work on days that I know for a fact I clocked in and out for, fired me over it, and then denied my appeal without reviewing any footage. I know that example is purely on experience rather than objective fact, but that's how I imagine most wage theft happens. Therefore, if it's able to be measured out reliably, then why isn't anything done towards them? Isn't wage theft highly illegal?? Or am I just ignorant???
Found wage theft. That is, of the number of incidents reported, which ones were ruled to be theft. But there's the undocumented part of wage theft.
On top of that, there are "legitimate" cases that should be considered wage theft, i.e. extraction of value from the worker. The tally on that is essentially the entire world economy.
most wage thefts are not even reported. boss makes you come in early? stay late? have lunch at your desk? answer emails and calls outside of work? those are still wage theft even if they never touch your pay check.
and if I were to put my Marx hat, then all for profit business is wage theft (although I get it is not legally so, but who made that fucking law?)