AG: New wage theft law is pro-business, too

Christopher Allen

08/18/2023

CHANGE MAKER? Patrick Crowley, secretary-treasurer for the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, says the wage theft law will alter the way management at many companies treats its employees when it comes to paying wages.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

For more than four years Attorney General Peter F. Neronha sought to adjust an oversight in state law that he argues could have been a plot in the theater of the absurd. Up until state legislators passed a law in June making wage theft and employee misclassification a felony, the criminal penalties for petty theft

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