Please help, my daughter with Aspergers is being screwed by Dollar General in Jaffrey NH

[Jim Lane]

6. Screwup is the most likely explanation

If her AS manifested on the job in a way that convinced the employer she couldn't perform acceptably, she'd just be fired (and Dollar General would pay the two weeks' wages, likely to be a pittance). My guess is that somebody doing data entry transposed two digits in her SSN, or the like.

The second-most likely explanation is that Dollar General frequently screws new hires this way (i.e., again it has nothing to do with AS). Cheating your daughter out of two weeks' pay wouldn't be worth it to the company, but breaking the law would be worth it as part of a more general scheme. Perhaps the plan is to overhire, make a cull, and just stop paying the ones who don't make the cut, so they'll quit. Saving two weeks' wages on one new hire after another, over time, might be enough money to tempt Dollar General to violate the law. Ideally, you or your daughter or a lawyer or an investigator for the state wages-and-hours enforcement body would find a whole bunch of people who recently worked short stints at dollar General, and find out whether those employees were paid. If this has happened repeatedly, that's critical evidence (possible class action).