Barbara Ehrenreich: How corporations and local government use the poor as piggy banks

[RandomGuy]

Texas may pass a bill that identifies wage theft perps and scofflaws in the current lege: https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup...=86R&Bill=HB48

On a bit more deep reading:

Passed house 95 to 49, indicating broad support, referred to Senate Committee for analysis/debate. It may indeed pass.

Not overly strong bill though. Three years and you are off the list. Given how often or successful such administrative injunctions are, this seems fairly weak sauce. "included in a publicly available database for 3 years" .

(g) The commission shall list an employer in the database
until the third anniversary of the date the penalty is assessed or
the employer is convicted, unless the employer is removed from the
database as a result of the commission's determination following a
dispute under Subsection (

[Winehole23]

What's anti-business about shaming thieves?

[boutons_deux]

What's anti-business about shaming thieves?

the thieves are shameless Repug voters