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Similarly, protesters often argue that Nike has monopsonist power over the job market in some countries, which allows Nike to underpay its workers for lower costs and higher profits. Because of this, Nike—and other companies with similar employment situations—should sacrifice some of their profits to pay their employees better, since the employees’ only option is to work for Nike (or to not work at all). But simply arguing that Nike has a fiduciary “duty” to employees or that it “should” return some...
...billion Estimated amount by which Americans will underpay the IRS this year...
...morale-killing store managers - recently factored into a labor case the company lost in Oregon. A jury found the company guilty of requiring associates to work unpaid overtime. The company plans to appeal; some 40 other wages-and-hours lawsuits are pending. Wal-Mart says it doesn't underpay employees, and that it's a good place to work. The company will enroll 5,500 people (most from store ranks) in its management-training program. "If the jobs are so bad, why are so many people working for Wal-Mart?" asks Charlyn Jarrells Porter, the company's head of personnel...
...fact, new questions keep popping up even as special counsel Robert Fiske prepares to launch his probe into all aspects of the mess. The latest: Did Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, back in Arkansas days, underpay their federal income taxes by much more than they have previously admitted? A TIME examination of bank records, interviews with some leading participants and consultations with tax experts indicate that is at least enough of a possibility to warrant a close look by Fiske and his probers...
Because they are denied their legal right to organize and bargain collectively with growers, farm workers, especially grape workers, earn meager wages while working under miserable conditions. Many grape growers use the piece rate method to underpay their workers. As a result, grape growers often earn as little as $2 an hour...