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).
21 companies currently excluded under this screen
Excluded Companies (21 total)
Showing 21 of 21 companies excluded under this screen.
| Ticker | Company | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| CART | INSTACART (MAPLEBEAR INC) | Instacart’s business model is built on the systematic misclassification of its delivery personnel as independent contractors rather than employees. This classification denies hundreds of thousands of ... |
| 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 ... |
| CPAY | CORPAY INC | Verified employee reviews on Indeed and Glassdoor (2023-2025) describe a sales culture built on coercion and quota manipulation. Multiple accounts from sales representatives detail pressure to re-enro... |
| CSX | CSX | CSX Corporation is a major U.S. freight railroad operator. The company has faced multiple OSHA enforcement actions for unsafe working conditions and has been cited for retaliating against workers who ... |
| DASH | DOORDASH INC CLASS A | DoorDash has faced sustained legal challenge over its classification of delivery workers — known as Dashers — as independent contractors rather than employees. Multiple lawsuits, including a proposed ... |
| 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 | NY Attorney General sued Domino's Pizza and three franchisees in 2016 for systematic wage theft across 10 stores, alleging at least $565,000 in underpayment. The company's proprietary PULSE payroll sy... |
| FAST | FASTENAL CO | Fastenal paid $10 million to settle a federal wage and hour class action in 2009 alleging systematic unpaid overtime for store managers. In 2011, Fastenal paid $6.25 million to resolve DOJ False Claim... |
| 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... |
| G | GENPACT LTD | Genpact faces systemic wage-and-hour litigation. Whitley v. Genpact LLC (N.D. Texas, Case No. 3:24-cv-01096, filed May 2024) alleges FLSA violations. In June 2024, court stayed action in favor of bila... |
| ITRK | Intertek | Intertek Group PLC faces a live legal action brought by 130 former Burmese migrant workers who allege that Intertek's social audits of VK Garment factory in Thailand failed to detect — and thereby ena... |
| JBHT | HUNT J B TRANSPORT SERVICES INC | J.B. Hunt has paid $25.7M in cumulative wage/labor settlements. The $15M Ortega v. J.B. Hunt settlement (2018, fought from 2007) covered ~11,000 California drivers denied proper compensation for pre/p... |
| 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 |
| NSC | Norfolk Southern Corporation | Norfolk Southern has faced repeated OSHA whistleblower complaints and DOL enforcement actions over retaliation against workers who report safety concerns. The railroad's labor practices have been docu... |
| ODFL | OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE INC | Old Dominion Freight Line has accumulated over $6.2 million in wage and hour violation penalties across multiple federal regulatory records. Combined with mandatory biometric fingerprint scanning with... |
| 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 ... |
| PGR | PROGRESSIVE CORP | Progressive settled with 23 salaried claims processors for $771,912 in 2023, resolving allegations of unpaid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The case, handled by Lytle & Barszcz, document... |
| SG | SWEETGREEN INC | Sweetgreen paid $750,000 to settle Richardson v. Sweetgreen (New York County, filed February 2022) for violations of the New York Labor Law including wage theft affecting hourly restaurant workers. Th... |
| SHG | Shinhan | Shinhan was named in a U.S. Department of Labor complaint alleging violations of federal wage laws. The complaint states the company, along with another firm, withheld approximately $86,000 in wages f... |
| UPS | UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC | ViolationTracker documents 42 federal and state wage and hour violations against United Parcel Service totaling $138.7 million. Separately, UPS paid $98 million to settle New York state tax evasion cl... |
| WBD | WARNER BROS DISCOVERY INC | WBD is defendant in Padilla v. Warner Bros. (filed Nov 2025, LA County Superior Court), a major class-action alleging failure to pay minimum wage and overtime to non-exempt employees between 2021-2025... |
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