Titanic: Wages docked from time workers hit the water
The White Star Line, who paid the going rate for the job, mainly employed freelance workers who could be let go when the job finished.
Rather bureaucratically, the number crunchers at White Star calculated surviving staff's wages up until the exact point they entered the water and according to the records, “stopped performing their allocated job”. The company received some flak over this heartless calculation and there was a public outcry.
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