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After they won their wage theft cases, they waited years to get paid. Some still wait.

Enforcing court judgments and city labor determinations is a problem all over the country, even in Philadelphia, with its powerful wage theft law.

Marcos Tlacopilco, in front of his restaurant Alma del Mar, in Philadelphia on Jan. 30. Tlacopilco won a wage theft claim in court in 2018 but never got paid the full $12,000 he was owed for construction work.
Marcos Tlacopilco, in front of his restaurant Alma del Mar, in Philadelphia on Jan. 30. Tlacopilco won a wage theft claim in court in 2018 but never got paid the full $12,000 he was owed for construction work.Read moreJessica Griffin / Staff Photographer