California restaurant fined for using fake priest to spy on employees and extract confessions.
TL;DR
A California restaurant, Taqueria Garibaldi, has been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to employees after using an alleged priest to hear worker confessions during work hours. The U.S. Department of Labor found that the restaurant denied employees overtime pay, paid managers illegally from the employee tip pool, threatened employees with retaliation and adverse immigration consequences, and fired one worker who complained to the department. The restaurant and its owners have been ordered to pay the sum by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
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