I want money to purchase housing, land, and food. Just give me the money. There's only 4 people in that building serving 100+ people an hour - how does it not make sense to just pay them 20$ an hour?
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Just adding some information to the discussion. $2.50 extra per hr for 2000 hrs (typical hours worked in a year) is $5000.
I'd probably rather take the extra pay in that situation.
It can be for any reason, and you can clearly state it’s only for this month, or until the pandemic ends, or whatever. Nobody will hang them over the fire when it ends and it helps adapt to conjectures.
However, lawyers will come after them if they try to reduce your wage later.
The irony is that mistreating low-level employees actually reduces litigation liability if they can't co-ordinate. The less you pay them, the less they can afford litigation, both from a time and money perspective.
The Department of Labor has lawyers too! They'd be happy to look into wage theft complaints for free.