As an aside, I’ve seen this happen elsewhere as well. Classic play for wage theft. When I was working as a bartender in London to make ends meet, I had a coworker from Mexico on an expired visa. Great guy and the most hardworking. Well won’t you guess it, guy got picked up by immigration authority on payday.
Some people take respect to mean treating other people as equals. Other people treat respect as an excuse to exploit people, like they should be treated as superiors.
I believe the quote went something like, “If you don’t treat me with respect, then you don’t deserve respect,” meaning, “If you don’t treat me as an authority, I won’t treat you as human.”
As always, the more a person wants power, the less that person deserves it.