Labor Ready: The big, shameful success on the backs of the poor, Part III (of 5)

Number three on the list of revolting rules that the Labor Ready company has and uses to keep poor people poor also has to do with the mileage the "temp" may drive to do their work. Here's the obscene deal: After the company pays only approximately 20 cents per mile to the temp/driver (and pocketing the very much larger 35 cent difference they're reimbursed by the government--see the earlier post today), Labor Ready then pays the temp. But here's the grossness of the thing--they pay the temp the mileage as though it's part of wages. The problem? First, it takes and keeps yet more money from the likely poor and needy temp/employee but, far worse--this is mileage. IT SHOULDN'T BE TAXED. IT'S NOT PART OF WAGES. What's terrific about this for Labor Ready is that it can then all too likely KEEP THAT MONEY, TOO and once again benefit, at the expense of the employee. I'm telling you, these people are grossly, grossly immoral. This, to me, seems like it would GO AGAINST THE FEDERAL TAX CODE AND BE ILLEGAL. I hope it is. And I hope they're caught. Then, I hope they're fined heavily and money is returned to the employees. It seems as though it should be a civil lawsuit, to me, in Federal Court. It should be a class-action suit against them.