Former Boss Withholding All Wages?
i am in desperate need of help with this, i was working at a small shop in portland oregon and after a month of getting things pushed back and pushed back it turns out that the owner never submitted any of my hours to the payroll company, was insisting on paying me under the table but never actually did, said that any hours over 40 are entirely on me regardless of me clocking 60 in one week and has been refusing to pay me any of the slightly-over-a-month's wages for over 30 days now regardless of me sending a 10 day demand weeks ago because i haven't returned a key.
i have documentation of all of this, she has left an extensive paper trail with her admitting to all of this in email and chat history as well as a few other labor violations, and ive contacted a local worker's rights org but they said i can't do anything until the labor bureau processes my complaint and gives a right to sue, and when i emailed the bureau about the complaint i filed they said it could take anywhere from 6-8 months to a year to be looked into.
is there anything i can do that will be any quicker? is this something that another lawyer, like one that specializes in wage law or something might be able to help expedite? do i really need to get something from the labor bureau to take any legal action when i have full documentation of the multiple laws broken by the owner?
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