Worker Exploitation
Conduct Screen Labor Rights
Systematic wage theft, misclassification of employees as contractors, unpaid overtime, tip theft, or other schemes to extract labor value without fair compensation. Includes gig economy misclassification and temp agency exploitation. Distinct from forced_labor (which involves coercion/captivity), working_conditions (physical safety), and anti_union (organizing suppression).
11 companies currently excluded under this screen
Excluded Companies (11 total)
Showing 11 of 11 companies excluded under this screen.
| Ticker | Company | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| CBRE | CBRE GROUP INC | NY State DOL Wage Theft Investigation Dashboard lists CBRE Group for confirmed findings of unpaid wages, damages, and interest owed to workers in facilities management operations. US DOL Workers Owed ... |
| CCI | CROWN CASTLE INC | Crown Castle tower technician fatalities: 38-year-old supervisor died after falling from 500-foot guyed tower in Texas (Nov 2024); separate fatality from 300-foot tower in North Carolina (2024). OSHA ... |
| DLTR | Dollar Tree, Inc. | Dollar Tree has accumulated $21.3 million in employment-related penalties across 24 enforcement actions, primarily for systematic wage theft. Major actions include a $7.6 million private wage and hour... |
| DPZ | Domino's Pizza Inc | Major lawsuit for wage theft; payroll software programmed to underpay employees; 78% of stores paid below minimum wage. |
| FDX | FEDEX CORP | In NLRB Case No. 28-CA-023335, FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. was found to have violated the National Labor Relations Act by misclassifying drivers as independent contractors to avoid providing emp... |
| JBHT | HUNT J B TRANSPORT SERVICES INC | J.B. Hunt agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle allegations it violated Washington State wage transparency laws by failing to include salary ranges in job postings. |
| MAS | MASCO CORP | Peter A. Prostyakov filed a complaint in the Noginsk City Court alleging that Masco violated the Russian labor code with its backdated and falsified Labor Book entries. |
| META | Meta Platforms, Inc. | BHRRC 2025 data links Meta to the highest number of global migrant and gig worker abuse cases among major tech companies, concentrated in content moderation workforce |
| ODFL | OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE INC | Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. was involved in a wage and hour violation in 2015, resulting in a private federal lawsuit settlement of $3,400,000. |
| PDD | PDD HOLDINGS INC | PDD Holdings' Temu platform has been documented exploiting workers across its supply chain through forced labor practices linked to Xinjiang. The U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP identified the ... |
| YUM | Yum! Brands, Inc. | KFC implicated in 2023 class-action lawsuit alleging use of incarcerated labor under exploitative conditions. |
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