Massage Therapy Union

Be a decapod - or a demigod!

That's how you own the libs, I guess

Now we need to hold Dems to supporting Mamdani instead of one of their billionaire-approved, anti-working class supplicants.

As a side note, Baron Trump would make a good Queen. He's got nice bone structure for contouring.

Ya' know? Baron Trump would make a good Queen. He's got nice bone structure for contouring.

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Massage Therapists, you deserve better than a few dollars more than minimum wage plus tips. You deserve a workplace safe from predators. You can unionize your spa or studio to protect yourself and your team together!!
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Well, the ex-boss missed his appeal deadline. He needs to cut a bunch of checks totaling $92,563 to my team and the state by mid-June. Otherwise it defaults to extended penalties. Not gonna lie - part of me hopes he misses the next deadline too.

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning!

For as few curricula that include business planning, even fewer offer information on employee rights and protections: how to recognize employee misclassification, wage theft, exploitation; and the legal paths you can pursue to fix it.

How ironic - they expect their staff to provide health care to patients, but not to receive any if they become patients

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If he doesn't pay us in 60 days from the judgement, the penalties all double. He still has the right to appeal again, if he wishes. But filing an appeal after you "won" is kind of weird. It's nice to have something resembling closure, but I'm not done fighting until we have checks in our hands.

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Since he only paid us 1x in penalties, he now owed us another 1x penalty check to bring it up to the 2x penalty from the initial decision. And he now owes over $27,000 in state fines as well. His ego cost him just under $100,000 - and that's not counting however much he paid his lawyer.

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So technically, he won. The judge decided that the willful determination was not accurate and repealed that part of the investigator's decision. But since he appealed the dollar amounts, he no longer qualified for the reduced penalties. Like they said before.

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But he didn't like the 'willful' part of the decision and chose to appeal. He sent us a penalty check for 1/2 of the non-willful amount (1x) instead. He was warned by the appeals agent at the time he appealed that this would make him ineligible for the reduced penalties offer.

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To encourage employers to settle quickly, CO says that if the monies are paid out early, they will cut the penalties to half (1.5x) and completely waive the penalties owed to the state. But to qualify for the decreased penalties, they cannot appeal the dollar amounts awarded.

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Last year, we finally landed an investigator who found that we were due backpay and awarded us the maximum that the state could award. He also found that the wage theft had been willful, which increased the penalties from 2x backpay owed to 3x backpay owed.

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We weren't being paid for being required to come into the studio before our shifts started to set up rooms, for time spent cleaning the rooms between sessions, or for other cleaning and side work we were required to do. We did this in May of 2022 - almost three years ago!

Massage Therapists Rubbed the Wrong Way by Firing After They Fought to Unionize The two employees of Elements Massage claim they were booted over their unionization efforts. Now they're kicking back.

We finally got a decision from the appeals judge on our unpaid wages complaint!

As a recap, eight of my massage therapy team (including myself) from my former studio filed complaints against our former employer.
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Let’s start with the basics.

"Vladimir, STOP!" That's not our safeword

#GimPOTUS

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Putin: That's not our safe word.

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