When Border Patrol agents arrested eight migrant workers on a dairy farm in Berkshire, the entire dairy farming industry in Vermont felt the shockwaves.
If somebody agrees to work for me at below minimum wage and seems enthusiastic about it, am I still exploiting them? What if I’m paying them $15/hr but no medical, 401k, or other benefits because it’s under the table? Is it not exploitation, even if the person is happy to get the wage?
It seems a very different situation between legal, documented immigrants being represented by a legitimate job placement company, vs undocumented immigrants who are being paid unknown wages and have much less ability to negotiate.
Ok, but that has nothing to do with my original point which was simply that saying they’re being exploited because they work so much when they’re probably the ones who wanted to work 72h/week is ridiculous.
If somebody agrees to work for me at below minimum wage and seems enthusiastic about it, am I still exploiting them? What if I’m paying them $15/hr but no medical, 401k, or other benefits because it’s under the table? Is it not exploitation, even if the person is happy to get the wage?
It seems a very different situation between legal, documented immigrants being represented by a legitimate job placement company, vs undocumented immigrants who are being paid unknown wages and have much less ability to negotiate.
Ok, but that has nothing to do with my original point which was simply that saying they’re being exploited because they work so much when they’re probably the ones who wanted to work 72h/week is ridiculous.