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State of California Orders Baja Fresh to Pay Nearly $400,000 for Wage Theft
Over a two year period, cooks and cashiers at seven locations did not receive full pay for hours worked
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Last month, the state of California cited and fined a Baja Fresh franchisee in the form of seven separate affiliated corporations for wage theft of 188 workers. After an investigation, the state labor commission discovered that from February 2017 to May 2018, 188 Baja Fresh restaurant workers experienced wage theft and will now receive $375,806 in unpaid wages.
California Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower’s office stated that G & D Investments, Inc. dba Baja Fresh, seven other legal entities, and its CEOs set up different corporations for each restaurant, but shared employees between locations. By shuffling employees, cooks and cashiers did not receive full pay for hours worked, including overtime and double time, and double s
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The California Labor Commissioner has fined a McDonald’s franchisee for firing four employees who participated in strikes to protest coronavirus safety conditions in their Los Angeles workplace.
R&B Sanchez, which operates a McDonald’s on 1716 Marengo St. in Boyle Heights, was fined Friday more than $125,900 in lost wages and retaliation penalties and ordered to offer the workers their jobs back. The franchisee may appeal.
“Too many workers fear retaliation if they report a problem or stand up for their rights,” said Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower in a statement Wednesday. “California law has anti-retaliation protections in place that make it illegal for employers to punish workers for exercising their labor rights, such as reporting a workplace safety hazard”
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A former Vista wholesale bakery, along with its lender and others, is being cited by the state for failing to pay back wages and related penalties totaling nearly $1.3 million for 189 employees who lost their jobs more than two years ago when the business closed.
The California Labor Commissioner announced this week that it had not only issued citations but also sued a number of entities, including the former Baked in the Sun wholesale bakery, which shuttered in late 2018 after two decades of providing baked goods to coffee houses, hotels, hospitals and schools throughout Southern California. At the time it closed, its customers included Whole Foods Market, Costco Wholesale and Sprouts Farmers Market, according to its website at the time.