The biggest issue I've seen is unironically a top down problem with the leadership skills of people at the extreme top and middle of corporate command chains. Something I've figured out from working at my job for 5 years, which is entirely commission-based, is that they have a script they are trained to use when dealing with employee-related issues. The common threat to bring out, if you have a worker who's broken a piece or two, is, "we're going to stop paying you for damaged product you've delivered."

It's a monumentally stupid policy for a couple of reasons. The first being that it's not true. Wage deductions work like writeups, in that the employee has to give written consent to it. In my state, it cannot be a blanket agreement that was signed upon employment. The thing that was broken and the bill needs to be handed off for them to sign, and they are allowed to refuse to sign it. They may not be terminated for their refusal to sign, and if they do not sign it, the employer must pay them as normal, and their only legal recourse would be suing the employee (which would involve demonstrating negligence or misconduct on the employee's part, rather than simple buffoonery).
So for an already unpleasant job, which they already have trouble keeping staffed because they expect everyone to be clean on it and fulfill customer service roles in addition to hard manual labor, they put this absolutely disgusting earworm in their worker's ear, as if that's going to do anything but damage a relationship that is completely transactional. I'll lose a $100 bill on the bus and shrug over it. If I suspect there's even a chance someone's stolen a 20 from me, however, it would be difficult to not see them as a person to avoid. This is how they keep losing people. A completely empty threat.