Re:Cheap skates (Score 1)

Sounds like they were just trying to get out of paying you yoru last weeks pay....

In a far distant past, one of my employers wanted to get rid of everybody in our retail outlet (computer shop) at once (I guess he didn't like that we actually gave good customer support instead of saying 'yes' to every question customers had) and found an ingenious way to do it: He had us all arrested for theft.

All 8 of us spent at least 1 night in jail whilst being interviewed by the police (I can't call it interrogated, because the police, in difference to our employer, were actually nice and polite) and afterwards used every legal tool in our bag to get our money anyway. We all did. Some of us sued (I didn't) and a year after the case, the guy who started it all got sacked with what amounts to an dishonourable discharge for lying to the CEO...

Sadly this is years ago and not in the US, so I dont think our success afterwards is any indication of legal jurisprudence.