At the car wash...

Idiot Bush thinks laws are just "damn pieces of paper." Apparently that's also what some car wash owners in New York and California think about labor laws.

In New York City, state inspectors have discovered that 78% of the car washes they checked were violating minimum wage or overtime laws. This echoed similar discoveries in California.

The minimum wage in the state of New York is $7.15 an hour (the national minimum wage doesn't go up to $7.25 an hour for another year), but many car washes weren't even abiding by this law. Other car washes had employees work as much as 70 hours a week but didn't pay overtime. Others took workers' tips - which is illegal, as the lawbreaking by Starbucks showed.

Workers were looted to the tune of $6,500,000.

New York officials are now vowing to investigate complaints in other industries as well, because ignoring minimum wage laws is so rampant in BushAmerica. One official said that in these industries, "labor law compliance is unusual."

Do big business owners not understand the concept of what a law is?

Notice also that the U.S. Department of Labor is completely AWOL, as it generally has been throughout the Bush era.

(Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/15/national/a142028D67.DTL)