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Because of who runs the department of labor. When it comes to labor laws, there are a lot of them that benefit employees but are barely or not at all enforced. Even not paying wages is something the federal DoL rarely has both the will and resources to punish.

They're not. See page 115 of the materials linked from the article. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nosR5ER-VFYiw52si_M5kM9ZBfD...

Well, those things are illegal in most countries, according to my understanding?

The thing is, proof to catch the offender, which will be hard in mega corps?

Is there a legal case there? Union-busting being unconstitutional?