Minimum wage violations have more than doubled in four California cities, including San Diego, a Rutgers University study released Thursday shows.
The Workplace Justice Lab examined wage surveys taken between 2014 and 2023. The findings indicate affected workers lose about 20% of their total paycheck each year.
“It makes it that much more important that these agencies at the state and local level are properly resourced and have the strategies in place to deal with this underlying issue,“ lead author Jacob Barnes said.Barnes says the Work Place Justice Lab chose to examine California because of state and local minimum wage increases and its more strict labor standards.
“Unfortunately we weren’t too surprised. The higher the wage rate, the more likely the workers are to have their wages stolen,” Barnes said.The study is based on data collected by the most recent census. It includes information about household earnings and other job variables. They compared those statistics to minimum wage rates for the area to determine possible violations.
“We do find that Black and Latinx workers are more likely across areas, than white workers, to experience minimum wage violations,“ Barnes said.
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