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	<title>WHEN THE ABUSER GOES TO WORK &#187; wage theft</title>
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		<title>Strippers are &#8216;Employees&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is a worker  an employee who is entitled to a salary and unemployment benefits? This question was at issue in a Kansas case that sheds light on the exploitative world of strip clubs and so-called gentlemen clubs. Shortly after Milano&#8217;s, Inc. purchased a Topeka strip club called Club Orleans in 2002,  company President John Samples [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago&#8217;s Innovative Effort to Stop Wage Theft</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Chicago this month  became the second, and biggest, city to pass an ordinance addressing the problem of  wage theft. The Chicago ordinance appears to be an innovative and potentially highly effective initiative to combat a  problem that disproportionately affects low wage workers and undocumented immigrants.   The ordinance states any licensee that is in the business [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Workplace Bullying: The Big Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to be quoted in a  Businessweek  feature on the problem of workplace bullies but I also find it frustrating that  the American media consistently fails to see the big picture about this serious national problem. Workplace bullying is not just about misguided individuals who bully co-workers and subordinates. More importantly, it is about American employers. American employers permit bullying [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Employers that Bully</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people who think of workplace bullies invoke the image of the combative boss played by Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glenn Ross or the passive-hostile magazine editor played by Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. But some workplace bullies are not individuals but the employer itself – a fact that often gets lost in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Wage Theft Goes Unpunished</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you rob a liquor store and get caught, you may serve time in prison. But nothing much happens when an unscrupulous employer steals money from an employee’s paycheck. That’s the sad conclusion of a national report recently released by the Progressive States Network (PSN), entitled,  Where Theft is Legal: Mapping Wage Theft Laws in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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