On that note, Garcia-Brower encouraged workers at carwashes and other vulnerable industries to document their hours, breaks and overtime thoroughly - and to reach out to the Labor Commissioner’s office, or the CLEAN Car Wash Worker Center, if they’re concerned about working conditions at their jobs. There’s this myth in California that workers don’t have rights, that immigration status matters - and it simply doesn’t,” the labor commissioner said, “California has the strongest protections, but if workers don’t understand their rights, then they can’t exercise them.” “We know we have a history of exploitation in this country. Wage theft and other labor violations are endemic to the car wash industry, Garcia-Brower said, as well as other work sectors that tend to have informal employee-employer relations, such as domestic work and childcare. I’m very glad we had the courage to speak up, and I know it will inspire other people in a similar situation.” “It can be very difficult to speak up to the owner when you’re experiencing wage theft.
“Wage theft affected me not only financially, but emotionally and mentally,” said Anselmo Leyva Hernandez, a former Kastle Car Wash employee. High court to hear social media terror suits, including one involving death of CSULB student.Long Beach expands monkeypox vaccine eligibility again.Shaqtoberfest brings a Halloween party and basketball legend to the Queen Mary in Long Beach.Election 2022: Al Austin, Josh Lowenthal face off for state Assembly seat on Nov.Torrance car wash fined more than $800,000 for wage theft violations.Just one month after filing a property lien against Castle Car Wash, the citations were paid in full. The new tool, García-Brower added, significantly speeds up her office’s ability to enforce and recuperate money via citations and other legal judgments.
It gave us the the authority to place a lien on the property versus having to wait for the judgment lien, which has to go through the court process.” “We need more tools to be able to freeze assets when we see them - quickly,” García-Brower said. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 572 into law, which authorized the Labor Commissioner’s office to put liens on real property as an alternative to the traditional judgement liens used to secure payments ordered via citation or legal ruling. Last year, workers there learned the company was going to be sold - which would have circumvented CDIR’s ability to put a judgement lien on the company’s assets and recover the lost wages, CDIR said. Three years and an appeal from Classic Castle later, that amount was amended to $241,641.Ĭlassic Castle made $54,272 from 2017 to 2020, García-Brower said, but eventually stopped making payments. The AP is solely responsible for all content.The state agency issued $370,644 worth of labor citations against the company in 2017. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. Until Elon Musk’s SpaceX started launching astronauts two years ago, NASA was forced to spend tens of millions of dollars every time an astronaut flew up on a Soyuz. They agreed to the plan last summer in order to always have an American and Russian at the station. He launched on a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan, kicking off the cash-free crew swapping between NASA and the Russian Space Agency. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio arrived two weeks ago. Until then, 11 people will share the orbiting lab. Mann and her crew will replace three Americans and one Italian who will return in their own SpaceX capsule next week after almost half a year up there. “You guys are the best,” replied Mann, the capsule's commander. As the capsule closed in, the space station residents promised the new arrivals that their bunks were ready and the outside light was on.
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