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I just found this site yesterday and find it very interesting as well as entertaining. The amount of posts here indicate the likelihood that there are some serious issues with this company. I have heard some things from people that I know who work for Enterprise, but it pales in comparison. What puzzles me is that fact that I never read about these things in the press or hear about lawsuits being filed.

Anyone who has questions about his/her situation regarding wages, benefits, etc., should take a look at www.dol.gov. It is the Department of Labor's website, and is very concise. Many states do not have labor laws and those states just follow the Department of Labor. Some states have laws that provide more employee rights. Check the site to see where your state falls on this issue. Based on the posts that I have read, if your state does not have anything to the contrary, this company would be violating rights regarding overtime pay for the most part, and other pay rights in some states. I am not sure, but the site may contain some agency link for reporting these violations.

The lack of publicity makes me think that the company is paying off anyone who hires an attorney. The only way to force a change is to make the problem bigger for the company than the pennies they are paying out. I would think that there are some hungry young reporters in various media outlets who would love a chance at a big investigative story like this one. Why haven't we read that story? I don't have the answer, but am curious.

Another avenue would be the political arena. I know that Enterprise is very involved in lobbying efforts and have relationships with a number of politicians as a result. That fact makes it hard to make progress in this arena; however, their friendly pols would run for cover in the light of bad publicity, especially right now. Private companies, for the most part, have escaped the limelight of corporate corruption and malfeasance of the last few years. Exposing one abusive private company that basically has had a monopoly on one industry, namely replacement rentals, could lead to more protective statutes for employees.

I am not a union supporter, and generally, feel that in their current form, they have outlived their usefulness and are a detriment at many companies. However, it was corporate greed and poor treatment of employees that led to their existence in the first place. Companies just like this one. The questions that are nagging at me after reading some of these posts are, how do they continually get away with violating labor laws, and how do they not get sued by customers?

[Robert]

Originally Posted by BobCamp

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