The grievances included "nonpayment of wages; withholding of passports; excessively long working hours without rest; and physical, sexual, and psychological abuse".
When I ponder my decomposing professional life: the late payment, underpayment, nonpayment and general all-round personal and intellectual violation it inevitably involves, surely my knuckles cramp with cruel and unusual bewilderment or homicidal tetchiness?
Many have criticised these companies for bringing back debtors' prisons by jailing people unable to pay privately-imposed fines, in direct violation of Bearden v Georgia, a Supreme Court case from 1983 that found that jailing someone for nonpayment of fines due to an inability to pay (rather than willful withholding of funds) violates the Equal Protection clause.
It then noted that the court has repeatedly allowed corporations to bring free-exercise claims.This Court has allowed an Amish business owner to raise a free exercise defense to nonpayment of Social Security taxes.
For publishing Paine's works he was tried in 1819, heavily fined, and sentenced to a three-year term of imprisonment, which was extended to six years for nonpayment of the fine.
Commercial concerns have entered the scene: nonpayment of maintenance charges may result in threats of thawing and putrefaction.
For the second year in a row, the UN budgetary situation appeared to be in better health, although it remained on shaky grounds because of nonpayment and slow payment of dues.
In general, they include (1) the nonpayment of rent, (2) trespass and damage by cattle or other chattels, (3) nonpayment of taxes and certain fines, and (4) nonpayment for goods and services received.
During the year, the combined total UN budget regular budget, peacekeeping, tribunals, and capital master plan increased from $5.6 billion to $9.2 billion, but nonpayment and underpayment of dues plagued the organization and endangered the UN's financial health.
Orkney and Shetland passed into Scottish rule in 1472 in compensation for the nonpayment of the dowry of Margaret of Denmark, queen of James III.
Despite the agreement, unrest continued in the form of noncooperation with the Indian government, nonpayment of taxes, sabotage, and attacks on the army.
