There is an ongoing Massachusetts bill debate for an act to prevent wage robbery, advance employer responsibility, and upgrade public implementation. Attorney General for Massachusetts, Maura Healey, demonstrated a joint endeavor by the advocates of affected laborers holding banners in 'An Act to Prevent Wage Theft & Promote Employer Accountability,' proposing a quick end to the wage stealing threat across Massachusetts.

According to Lawyer General Maura Healey's office, in 2020, almost 13,000 wage robbery victims in monetary were identified and charged penalties for the violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), surpassing the previous year. The Fair Labor Division of the Massachusetts AG's office brought a few compensation burglary cases, including examinations involving grocery stores in Boston, Dorchester, and Quincy, all with pay and hour infringement prompting underpayment of laborers. 

The workplace forced a restitution and penalty request of more than $837,000 on a construction company that had disregarded pay and hour laws, recovered $186,000 from a service company that had neglected to pay extra time, and even discovered wage underpayments at the understudy run Harvard Shop (Avi-Yonah and Franklin 2019).

The Massachusetts group Community Labor United assesses that wage theft costs laborers in Massachusetts nearly $700 million every year. The Attorney General's Office, entrusted with ensuring laborers in the state, effectively recovers $5.2 million yearly. Regarding the statistics of daily wage theft, employers bag nearly $2 million daily, while the Attorney General surprisingly acquires only $14,330 in remuneration.

Aside from protesting, displaying banners, and reviewing wage theft laws, could hitting the #wagetheft issue continually bring accountability and force employers to recruit their infringement of the laborers' privileges under FLSA?

The question for debate is, should wage rights posters be required on Massachusetts office walls to combat wage theft?