The internet defended a woman who helped her sister report her job for wage theft and violating the law in a new viral post.

Published to Reddit's r/AmITheA**hole forum, a woman under the username u/protectiveoldersiss shared her story to the "AITA" community to get their opinions to see if she was in the wrong. The viral post has 6,000 upvotes and 700 comments.

The Redditor began her situation by explaining that her younger 16-year-old sister has a job as a camp counselor in the summertime. She works from 8:00 to 4:00 due to their state's law of minors not being able to work longer than eight hours.

Due to parents picking up their kids after 4:00, the original poster's (OP) sister has to stay until all the campers are gone, per her boss. So, she typically does a nine-hour shift.

In order to get her full pay, she has been clocking in the times that she has been working. Her boss told her that she could only file for eight hours since that was the law. For two weeks, her sister has been working nine-hour shifts and was not getting paid for the extra hour.

Wage theft is when an employee is not paid the full amount to which they are entitled. In a report done by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in 2017, between the years 2015 and 2016, $2 billion was given to employees that reported unpaid wages.

She wrote, "I was p**sed off when I heard about this, I told her they were stealing her pay and she could report it and get that paycheck. She wanted to. So we texted her boss...

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