Tag: safety

Resolution on Increasing Minimum Wage and Other Supports for Low-Income Families

Resolution in Support of the Hekhsher Tzedek Initiative

You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a stranger…You must pay him his wages on the same day…for he is needy and sets his life on it; else he will cry to God against you and you will incur guilt. (Deut. 24:14-15)

Keeping the salary of a worker is like taking his/her life, and transgresses five negative commandments and one positive command. Shulhan Arukh (Hoshen Mishpat 339:2)