The Yale Law Journal

Eamon Coburn

Note

Supply-Chain Wage Theft as Unfair Method of Competition

Eamon Coburn

This Note argues that wage theft in the fissured economy is a competition problem, not just a labor problem. It first recovers a historical understanding of substandard wages as an unfair method of competition. It then proposes FTC action against supply-chain wage theft using Section 5 of the FTC Ac…