A piece-rate pay system means that the worker is paid per unit of creation. Whether the "unit of creation" is a clay pot or a piece of writing, a person is paid by individual output, no matter how ...

With piece rates this low, workers simply can’t work fast enough to earn more than a few dollars per hour. The federal Fair Labor Standards Act requires that if a worker’s piece rate wages don’t add ...

A 2016 U.S. Department of Labor investigation found pay violations in 85% of the L.A. garment shops it looked into. ... a worker paid 5 cents per piece would have to sew 300 pieces in an hour.

Public Employers Exempt From Labor Code Provisions, PAGA Penalties, California Supreme Court Says ... which can reach $200 per aggrieved employee per pay period, ...

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