Yep. If you are a retail worker and your boss withholds $20 from your paycheck, it's not considered criminal theft. It's a civil matter. You have no recourse except civil law. In many states, you have to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office which may or may not do anything about it.
If you decide to simply take $20 out of the till to pay yourself - that's criminal theft. You get arrested, go to jail, and have to fight criminal charges.
It's one of the more blatant examples of how the laws of the United States are written to unjustly empower those with wealth that I am aware of.
If you decide to simply take $20 out of the till to pay yourself - that's criminal theft. You get arrested, go to jail, and have to fight criminal charges.
It's one of the more blatant examples of how the laws of the United States are written to unjustly empower those with wealth that I am aware of.