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Outrageous Fees To Access Your Wages? That’s What Happened To Her
Author: T. Steelman June 17, 2013 9:10 pm
How do you get paid? By check? Direct deposit? Cash (under the table – shhhhh)? These are all legitimate ways to be paid for your work nowadays. Heck, direct deposit has been our method of choice for the past 20 years. But have you ever been paid by debit card?
That’s what happened to Natalie Gunshannon last month. The 27-year-old mother of one, took a job at the Dallas, Pennsylvania branch of McDonald’s in April. On May 15th, she received wages for her first pay period. But inside her pay envelope, instead of a check, she found a Chase Bank debit card. The accompanying note said that her future earnings would be deposited in this account and she could access it with the card. For a fee. That’s right, she would have to pay a fee to access the money she earned.
Gunshannon did not sign the card and, when she next returned to work, asked her supervisor about it and if she could instead be paid via check or direct deposit. She was told she had no other option but the debit card. She went to the franchise owners but was given the same reply. So she quit the job, which paid $7.44 an hour (19 cents more than minimum wage), and filed a lawsuit.
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Charged Fees to Access wages
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