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CLN Helps Construction Workers Fight Wage Theft – The Catholic Labor Network
Galeas says that wage theft, especially targeting
immigrant workers, is rampant in the Washington DC
construction industry. Even visiting the largest
construction sites in the city, he nds that half the
employees are paid as if they were independent
contractors, allowing the employer to evade both
overtime pay and required taxes such as social
security and unemployment insurance. Contractors
who do this also avoid paying for workers’
compensation insurance – leaving workers on their
own if they get injured.
“This is happening all over the city,” says Galeas. “The
contractors exploit them and think they will be afraid
to speak up because they are immigrants and some
are undocumented.”
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Rob Hawke
October 8, 2020 at 6:19 pm
Another reason that the Building Trades and
the Catholic Church need to help those who are
being taken advantage of.
We have more in common than most folks
think
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