A Database of Thieves

Facing a wave of employee theft, retailers across the country have helped amass vast databases of workers accused of stealing and are using that information to keep employees from working again in the industry.

The problem with this, as the article points out, is that innocent employees can also find their names in the system (“The lawyers say workers are often coerced into confessing, sometimes when they have done nothing wrong, without understanding that they will be branded as thieves.”) and like the “shame of the three strikes law,” it can mean that one mistake can ruin a person’s ability to work in retail again.

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