Six years after a new law made wage theft a felony in Minnesota, our state has its first wage theft conviction.
Frederick Leon Newell will be sentenced in June for stealing $35,000 dollars from five workers he employed as a painting contractor for a Minneapolis affordable housing development.
Everyone’s reminder that wage theft accounts for more money stolen than all other forms of theft COMBINED.
https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/