• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Nope. Let’s not do that. Don’t change the definition. These are not monies workers were contractually or legally owed that were kept by the employer either willfully, via inaction, or in error.

    Wage theft is what it is. It is real. This is not it.

    This is shitty corporations doing what they always do, wage suppression and being greedy by keeping all the money to themselves. Find a new or existing word that directly means this. Enforced wage stagnation. Doesn’t roll off the tongue as easy, but more accurate.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      2 months ago

      agree. I see it with other things too. You have a really horrible thing and an bad thing and its like they are trying to up the severity of the bad ting but its more likely to water down on how the horrible thing is viewed.