turn to if faced with a hypothetical “serious problem The Consequences of Complaining: at work.” In Figure 7, we plot the share of workers Remedy or Retaliation? who would report to each entity, with the behavior on the Y-axis and the hypothetical on the X-axis. [...] Feared The analyses above of both the prevalence of labor standards violations and the reporting and retaliation experiences of workers who experience violations is limited to workers who were employed at the time of survey. [...] Unemployed Workers Compliance and the Complaint Gap: Labor Standards Violations in the California Service Sector 13 though produced even higher levels of retaliation labor violations, and the same share of workers were among the workers unemployed at the time of survey impeded from accessing the paid sick leave they were than among currently employed workers. [...] Compliance and the Complaint Gap: Labor Standards Violations in the California Service Sector 19 Third, we construct weights that align the distribution of workers by sub-sector in our survey with the distribution of workers by sub-sector in the ACS file. [...] Finally, we construct a weight that both aligns the sample in terms of the overall demographics of service sector workers in the ACS and the employment sizes of sub-sectors from the ACS.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction 1
- Labor Standards Violations 2
- California Fair Labor Standards Act 3
- Figure 1. 3
- California FLSA Violations 3
- California Paid Sick Leave 4
- Figure 2. 4
- Paid Sick Leave Violations 4
- Figure 3. 5
- Paid Sick Leave Question Flow 5
- California Paid Rest Breaks 6
- Figure 4. 6
- Rate of Paid Rest Break Violations by Shift Length 6
- California Meal Breaks 7
- RacialEthnic Inequality in Labor Standards Violations 7
- The Violation-Complaint Gap 8
- From Violations to Complaints 8
- Figure 5. 8
- RacialEthnic Inequality in Labor Standards Violations 8
- Figure 6. 9
- Reporting of Labor Standards Violations by Number of Types of Violations 9
- The Consequences of Complaining Remedy or Retaliation 10
- Figure 7. 10
- Figure 8. 11
- Workers Assessment of the Effectiveness of Reporting Labor Standards Violations 11
- Accounting for Worker Separations 12
- Figure 9. 12
- Reporting and Retaliation Forms of Retaliation Experienced vs. Feared 12
- Figure 10. 13
- Figure 11. 13
- Rates of Retaliation among Employed Workers vs. Unemployed Workers 13
- Discussion 14
- Authors 15
- Acknowledgement 15
- Methods 16
- Data Collection 16
- Measures 16
- Data Quality 18
- Methods Figure 1. 19
- Sensitivity of Results to Data Quality Filters 19
- Weighting 19
- Methods Figure 2. 20
- Sensitivity of Results to Survey Weights 20
- Appendix 21
- Appendix Figure 1. 21
- Rates of Retaliation for Using Paid Sick Leave 21
- Appendix Figure 2. 21
- Why Did Workers Choose Not to Use Paid Sick Leave 21
- Appendix Figure 3. 22
- Why Were Attempts to Use Paid Sick Leave Blocked 22
