California Restaurants Offered Priest to Extract Confessions of Workplace 'Sins'
Federal wage and hour investigators say a northern California restaurant attempted to use an alleged priest to get employees to admit workplace "sins."
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Federal wage and hour investigators say a northern California restaurant attempted to use an alleged priest to get employees to admit workplace "sins."
Owners of Che Garibaldi Inc., which operates the Taqueria Garibaldi Mexican restaurant in Sacramento, California, have agreed to pay some $140,000 in back wages and damages for shortchanging 35 employees and attempting to use a fake priest to get them to confess to “workplace ‘sins’” while on the job following legal action by the U.S. Department of Labor.
A Sacramento Mexican restaurant must pay out $140,000 to employees in back wages and damages after hiring a priest to hear employees’ confessions during work hours.