withheld wages
Stolen labor compensation
Withheld wages are earnings an employer has failed to pay a worker—whether through delayed paychecks, unpaid overtime, or deductions taken without authorization.
The phrase appears most often in legal and labor contexts: She filed a claim for withheld wages after her employer shorted her paycheck for three months.
Wage theft is a near-synonym.
- unpaidNot yet compensated
- stolenTaken unlawfully
- paycheckCompensation for labor
- pay stubEarnings and deductions summary
- bounced checkDraft returned for insufficient funds
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- labor abuseunpaid overtime, worker exploitation, forced overtime, underpayment, child labor
- wagessalary, pay, paycheck, income, earnings
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
- bondageslavery, servitude, bondage, slaves, thrall
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