UPDATED: Another Agriprocessors Zero Dollars Pay Stub

This one is a OneForce check from early August. Can you make these deductions add up?

Please click the image to enlarge:

[Hat Tip: A Postville resident with a digital camera.]

UPDATE 3-19-08 3:30 PM CDT –– The Other DK writes via email:

They're running [the 120 "bonus"] through as a contra deduction, so he's not getting cheated (at least not on that item), but....

By running through that way, they're not paying Social Security or Medicare taxes.

I recalculated the Social Security or Medicare taxes just now. They are calculated on a base of $290.

If challenged, One Force would probably claim that the lodging is provided "for the convenience of the employer and as a condition of employment". 26 USC 119.

Treasury Regulation Section 1.119-1(b) provides the standards for excluding lodging from income. From a quick reading:

If the employer furnishes the employee lodging for which the employee is charged an unvarying amount irrespective of whether he accepts the lodging, the amount of the charge made by the employer for such lodging is not, as such, part of the compensation includible in the gross income of the employee; whether the value of the lodging is excludable from gross income under section 119 is determined by applying the other rules of this paragraph. If the tests described in subparagraph (1), (2), and (3) of this paragraph are not met, the employee shall include in gross income the value of the lodging regardless of whether it exceeds or is less than the amount charged. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the value of the lodging may be deemed to be equal to the amount charged.

Subparagraph (1) talks about the lodging being on the business premises of the employer.

So, it may be that the amount may not be compensation (no payroll taxes) but still may have to be reported as income by the poor chump.

Slick? Disgusting!!!!!

Who do you know in the IRS?

This would explain why employees stay in OneForce housing. It also explains why OneForce charges so much per week.

I hope the EEOC, IRS and Iowa Department of Labor investigate this.

Comments

[rebitzman]

The unspecified deductions make no sense - neither does the stated pay period (8/2 to 8/2?)

The Bonus Net Total is showing as both a deduction AND as income.....

We would be SO toasted if we tried using this.

[Snipe-Fu]

I for one no longer buy ANYTHING from them and tell anyone I know to avoid their products.

I sincerely hope to see them out of business in the near future.

[critical_minyan]

getzel,
can you please label the package of the specific meat that this worker worked on so I know not to eat that specific meat.
I would prefer not to boycott your family's fine products but I don't want to eat meat, especially at my shabbes table that has a chishash of genevah.
I will still eat your meat, but have in mind when i make hamotzi that the bracha doesnt cover it, so I don't make a bracha over stolen products.

[mkarpas]

Something is Fishy(not meaty)
the pay period is for one day only Aug 2 2008 a Saturday.

[C-Girl]

It's a remarkable coincidence, isn't it, how the net pay is exactly $0. Either that or magic. I see no other possible explanation. Absolutely none.

[Isa]

Regarding:""the pay period is for one day only Aug 2 2008 a Saturday.""
Huh?
In 1985 I was in Meah Shareem, Jerusalem, on Shabbat and some stupid driver got around the barricades and was driving. the response of the residents were:

SHABBOS! SHABBOS! SHABBOS! SHABBOS! SHABBOS!

[state of the Jews]

The "pay period" may be listed as one day, but the number of hours is 39, so this may just be the day they automatically processed the check.

[Yochanan Lavie]

$0.00? Getzel will say "Don't worry, I'm giving him an 100% raise!"

[Anonymous]

Or it may be the guy worked for one day and quit because of the low kosher standards.

[Schneur Zalman]

Shmaryahu. You should study Chassidus to understand the pay stub.,. Try the long Maamarim in the Rashab's time.May I also tell you that in the institution where I work (YU) there are many faculty staff and students who are vigorously opposed to Rubashkin's practices and wish to see justice. So please do not believe all the PR crap being hurled by the Yated the OU etc. many orthodox Jews especailly the Right wing Modern orthodox are outraged by Rubashkin's practices.
We do not wish him jailed just justice for the workers and a halt to the endless Chilul hashem.

[WoolSIlkCotton]

Schneur Zalman, your final statement may not be possible without the Rubashkins serving prison time and/or heavy fines, because they are utterly recalcitrant and recidivist. Their in-your-face style of defending themselves, at a time when they should be laying low and trying their best to walk a straight and narrow path, illustrates this.