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More unjust persecution toward our job creator class.
Let's do some math
2021-2009= 12 (he worked there for 12 years)
52 * 100 = (he worked 5,200 hours a year)
12 * 5,200 = 62,400 (he worked 62,400 hours over 12 years)
546,000 / 62,400 = $8.75
You're telling me this retard freak's work was really worth $8.75 an hour?? He'd be lucky to get a dollar an hour.
"minimum standard of living"? We have homeless people out in the street all the time. He lived in an apartment. Clearly he had a decent standard of living. Yet that's not good enough for liberal judges who demand retard freaks live like kings.
This poor employer was no doubt frustrated and fedup by Smith's constant screwing up, but having the huge heart that he did, he didn't have the heart to fire a disabled person knowing he was probably doing somewhere in the ballpark of his best. So he kept him on staff for years, paying him the most he could afford to pay.
Maybe he had nowhere to go to and no family because even his family disowned his sorry behind.
If this employer was the only person he could go to, perhaps the free market dictated that nobody else was willing to hire him. He didn't point a gun at him in his house and force him to come to work. He could have quit, but didn't.
Now because of minimum wage laws and other tyranny, these disabled people won't be able to find work at all and will have to live out on the streets.
Big government tyranny destroys another business. This is another example of the potential good in "slavery" and how political correctness and big government intervention can ruin everything.
More unjust persecution toward our job creator class.
South Carolina man who was forced to work over 100 hours every week for years without pay and subjected to verbal and physical abuse was supposed to receive close to $273,000 in restitution after his former manager pleaded guilty.
But that initial amount was too low, an appellate court ruled in April. The man should have received more than double that amount -- closer to $546,000 -- from the manager to account for federal labor laws, according to the ruling.
John Christopher Smith was forced to work at a cafeteria in Conway without pay for years. His manager, Bobby Edwards, pleaded guilty to forced labor in 2018 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his abuse of Smith, a Black man who has intellectual disabilities.
Smith started working at the cafeteria as a part-time dishwasher when he was 12, according to the recent ruling. His first 19 years of employment there, when the restaurant was managed by other members of Edwards' family, were paid.
But when Edwards took over the restaurant in 2009, Smith was moved into an apartment next to the restaurant and forced to work more than 100 hours every week without pay, according to the ruling.
But that initial amount was too low, an appellate court ruled in April. The man should have received more than double that amount -- closer to $546,000 -- from the manager to account for federal labor laws, according to the ruling.
John Christopher Smith was forced to work at a cafeteria in Conway without pay for years. His manager, Bobby Edwards, pleaded guilty to forced labor in 2018 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his abuse of Smith, a Black man who has intellectual disabilities.
Smith started working at the cafeteria as a part-time dishwasher when he was 12, according to the recent ruling. His first 19 years of employment there, when the restaurant was managed by other members of Edwards' family, were paid.
But when Edwards took over the restaurant in 2009, Smith was moved into an apartment next to the restaurant and forced to work more than 100 hours every week without pay, according to the ruling.
Let's do some math
2021-2009= 12 (he worked there for 12 years)
52 * 100 = (he worked 5,200 hours a year)
12 * 5,200 = 62,400 (he worked 62,400 hours over 12 years)
546,000 / 62,400 = $8.75
You're telling me this retard freak's work was really worth $8.75 an hour?? He'd be lucky to get a dollar an hour.
The Fair Labor Standards Act's liquidated-damages provision holds that if failing to pay a worker's wages on time is so detrimental to that worker's "minimum standard of living," then they should be paid double that amount, the Supreme Court decided in 1945.
"When an employer fails to pay those amounts, the employee suffers losses, which includes the loss of the use of that money during the period of delay," the federal appeals court said.
"When an employer fails to pay those amounts, the employee suffers losses, which includes the loss of the use of that money during the period of delay," the federal appeals court said.
"minimum standard of living"? We have homeless people out in the street all the time. He lived in an apartment. Clearly he had a decent standard of living. Yet that's not good enough for liberal judges who demand retard freaks live like kings.
"Edwards effected this forced labor by taking advantage of Jack's intellectual disability and keeping Jack isolated from his family, threatening to have him arrested, and verbally abusing him," the ruling reads.
Smith feared Edwards, who once dipped metal tongs into grease and pressed them into Smith's neck when Smith failed to quickly restock the buffet with fried chicken, the ruling says. Edwards also whipped Smith with his belt, punched him and beat him with kitchen pans, leaving Smith "physically and psychologically scarred," according to the ruling.
But Smith also feared what might happen if he attempted to escape, he told CNN affiliate WPDE in 2017.
"I wanted to get out of there a long time ago. But I didn't have nobody I could go to," he told the affiliate. "I couldn't go anywhere. I couldn't see none of my family."
Smith feared Edwards, who once dipped metal tongs into grease and pressed them into Smith's neck when Smith failed to quickly restock the buffet with fried chicken, the ruling says. Edwards also whipped Smith with his belt, punched him and beat him with kitchen pans, leaving Smith "physically and psychologically scarred," according to the ruling.
But Smith also feared what might happen if he attempted to escape, he told CNN affiliate WPDE in 2017.
"I wanted to get out of there a long time ago. But I didn't have nobody I could go to," he told the affiliate. "I couldn't go anywhere. I couldn't see none of my family."
This poor employer was no doubt frustrated and fedup by Smith's constant screwing up, but having the huge heart that he did, he didn't have the heart to fire a disabled person knowing he was probably doing somewhere in the ballpark of his best. So he kept him on staff for years, paying him the most he could afford to pay.
Maybe he had nowhere to go to and no family because even his family disowned his sorry behind.
If this employer was the only person he could go to, perhaps the free market dictated that nobody else was willing to hire him. He didn't point a gun at him in his house and force him to come to work. He could have quit, but didn't.
Now because of minimum wage laws and other tyranny, these disabled people won't be able to find work at all and will have to live out on the streets.
Big government tyranny destroys another business. This is another example of the potential good in "slavery" and how political correctness and big government intervention can ruin everything.
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