Workers, Some Paid As Low as $2.43 an Hour, Receive $1.5M in Back Pay, Damages
Three San Diego-area companies that authorities say underpaid their Mexican employees have agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in back wages and damages.
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Three San Diego-area companies that authorities say underpaid their Mexican employees have agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in back wages and damages.
After three hours of testimonies, a federal judge is considering whether to detain a pizza chain owner accused of abusing undocumented workers.
A meatpacking sanitation firm, Packers Sanitation Services, has been fined $1.5 million for employing more than 102 children between the ages of 13 and 17 to clean meat plants with hazardous chemicals. The US Department of Labor said the sanitation firm violated child labor law by hiring minors across eight states to work in meatpacking plants,
Federal investigators found that C Salt Gourmet Market LLC did not pay some workers their full wages and allowed minors to perform hazardous jobs and work more hours than allowed by law.
Urgent Home Care Inc. was fined $521,905 by a court in Arizona.