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> That's illegal in the US [1] and it's just the same in Europe.

Wage theft is illegal in the US but is extremely popular, profitable and largely goes unpunished.

https://www.epi.org/press/wage-theft-costs-american-workers-...

By dollar value it is the largest category of theft in the USA, more than robbery, burglary, embezzling, all that stuff. And yet it barely even gets talked about, even though the perpetrators are in plain sight. Meanwhile someone breaks into a house to steal some ipads and gets 10 years.

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