Three of the largest supermarket chains in California have reached a tentative $22.4 million settlement in a class-action suit by immigrant janitors who said they often earned $3.50 an hour and were never paid overtime, the two sides said yesterday. The chains — Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons — tentatively settled the suit by 2,100 janitors, …
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From the age of 14, Isaias Garcia cleaned office buildings, waxing floors and scrubbing bathrooms, as long as 16 hours a day. For the first 40 hours a week, he says, he was paid under the name Ramon Caballero, and for the next 40 hours as Iziqueil Gonzalez. The cleaning company’s managers used these names …
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When a Vons cleaning contractor vanished last year without paying dozens of immigrant janitors, a watchdog group funded by other cleaning contractors stepped forward and helped the janitors file claims with the California Labor Commission. Vons ended up paying the workers, including several from San Diego, nearly $115,000 that it withheld from the contractor’s final …
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Don’t be fooled by the colorfully framed family photos on Lilia Garcia’s bookshelves, or the volume of Maya Angelou’s poetry, or the collection of coffee mugs with cheery sayings. Garcia is no mushy, stuffed-animal-loving softie. Her tiny, windowless office is the command center for a long-running battle against outlaw cleaning companies that prey on low-wage …
IN the first half of this year alone, janitors who clean the facilities of three major businesses in California were awarded millions in lost wages. Janitors who cleaned eight Cheesecake Factory restaurants in Orange and San Diego counties won S4.5 million in back wages. Janitors who cleaned a giant AT&T campus near LAX claimed hundreds …
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View citations here. Janitorial watchdog uncovers Tesla contractor has denied workers breaks, legal wages and failed to carry workers’ compensation insurance. LOS ANGELES—The state of California has cited and fined Tesla, Inc. and its janitorial subcontractors for violating a workers’ compensation law and a second investigation into wage theft is ongoing. Investigators for the Maintenance …
The United States Department of Labor announced yesterday that it had reached a $1.9 million settlement with a contractor for the Target Corporation after finding that the contractor had not paid overtime to hundreds of immigrant janitors who often worked seven nights a week cleaning Target stores. Several janitors said in interviews that the Target …
The Cheesecake Factory and a janitorial contractor have been found liable in a $4.57 million wage theft case involving hundreds of underpaid janitorial workers at eight California locations, the state’s Department of Industrial Relations said on Monday, sending a strong message to businesses that they are accountable for workplace violations — even if their workers …
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In a case that could prove to be a model for holding businesses responsible for abuses by their contractors, the Cheesecake Factory Restaurants Inc. chain has been found jointly liable with a janitorial services firm for wage theft violations totaling $4.2 million, the California Department of Industrial Relations said Monday. California Labor Commissioner Julie Su …
Every night, after the last show ended at the AMC theater in Santa Monica, Maria Alvarez arrived at work. She and her husband had a key to let themselves in. It was after midnight, and the building was empty. Together, they cleaned all seven auditoriums. They vacuumed the carpets and mopped the floors. They cleaned …
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