LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office issued a warrant for the arrest of Moon Hyuk Hahn. Hahn, owner of Pacific Commercial Company, faces 26 felony counts of insurance fraud, tax avoidance, and wage theft. The felony complaint was issued as a part of an investigation by the state of California’s Department of …
Yardenna Aaron has been appointed to be the new executive director of the Maintenance Corporation Trust Fund (MCTF). Aaron follows Lilia Garcia-Brower, who was appointed to the position of California state Labor Commissioner by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019. For six years, Aaron has collaborated with the MCTF on strategic investigation and advocacy seeking fair …
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The State of California has cited Tesla and its janitorial contractors for not paying janitors their full wages at one of Tesla’s San Jose facilities.
LOS ANGELES – Lilia García-Brower was sworn in Monday as the chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement at the California Department of Industrial Relations. García-Brower served as the executive director of the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund (MCTF) for nearly 20 years, helping to grow the organization into one of the most formidable and …
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Friends, It’s not everyday that an opportunity like this comes along. Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed our executive director, Lilia García-Brower, to serve as the Labor Commissioner for the state of California. Lilia has worked tirelessly for nearly two decades leading the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund in our goal to eliminate illegal and unfair business …
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His name is Guadalupe Flores, and he works the midnight shift seven nights a week, stripping, waxing and buffing the floors of an upscale Fullerton supermarket. He says he earns far less than the minimum wage, and just laughs when asked about overtime pay for his 56-hour weeks. Strong chemicals make his nose bleed, burn …
JENNIFER LUDDEN, host: On this Labor Day weekend, we turn our attention to a group of workers who often go unnoticed. They’re the janitors who clean office buildings and discount stores after they empty out at night. Many are immigrants, some illegal, and they’re often made to work grueling hours for pay well below minimum …
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Long before he left his native Guadalajara, Mexico, Ricardo Robles heard he could easily find a good-paying job in the United States. So it came as little surprise to him that almost as soon as he arrived in San Francisco two years ago, undocumented and penniless, he was earning $10 an hour pouring concrete for …
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Jose Luis Cazares and Marina Torres cleaned the Regal Cinemas at L.A. Live for more than six years, working 11-hour night shifts seven days a week up until 2011. Despite the long hours, the couple said they always got checks from Regal’s janitorial subcontractor for the same amount: $700, twice a month — a sum …
Paid sick days. Tougher penalties for employers who withhold back wages. More liability for corporations that use subcontractors. The priority list of organized labor, a formidable force in the Legislature, begins with these three items. In the recurring rhetoric of business vs. labor, the measures either protect workers or destroy work. The measures sit on …
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