{"id":1171743,"date":"2023-08-05T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=f34e266eaf2610f1b2ec33b6ce3d17aa"},"modified":"2023-08-05T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:32:40","slug":"employer-debt-traps-violate-workers-rights-federal-regulators-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/05\/employer-debt-traps-violate-workers-rights-federal-regulators-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Employer Debt Traps Violate Workers\u2019 Rights, Federal Regulators Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bosses that foist debt on new hires, an increasingly common management practice, appear to be violating their workers&rsquo; right to organize unions. According to a report published on July 20 by federal regulators, employment agreements that require workers to pay for training if they quit before an arbitrary deadline have the same effect as another type of legally dubious contract. The study...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/employer-debt-traps-violate-workers-rights-federal-regulators-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/employer-debt-traps-violate-workers-rights-federal-regulators-say\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor advocates say employer-driven debt is a form of illegal union-busting, and regulators appear poised to crack down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66939,724,9443,4,66944,1724,66945],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171764,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171743\/revisions\/1171764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}