Fresno takes first legal action against alleged wage theft

Fresno Takes First Legal Action Against Alleged Wage Theft

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ/KFSN) — The City of Fresno made history as it seeks to prosecute those who commit wage theft.  The 19-page complaint was filed last week and identified as many as nine victims who are at the center of the city’s first wage theft prosecution. It impacts those described as the city’s most vulnerable workers.  The year-long investigation culminated in a complaint alleging nearly a dozen violations of the California Labor Code.  …

Fresno takes first legal action against alleged wage theft

The City of Fresno made history as it seeks to prosecute those who commit wage theft.

Workers who built Fresno hotel owed $58,000 after wage theft, city alleges

Oakland News Online –Workers who built Fresno hotel owed $58,000 after wage theft, city alleges – video made by the YouTube channel with the logo in the video’s upper left hand corner. OaklandNewsOnline.com is the original blog post for this type of video-blog content. Workers who built Fresno hotel owed $58,000 after wage theft, city alleges via IFTTTNote from Zennie62Media and OaklandNewsOnline.com : this video-blog post demonstrates the full …

As Fresno Files First Case, Maxwell Vows to Protect Wage Theft Unit

Tyler Maxwell believes in Fresno’s wage theft unit — even with City Hall facing budget challenges. “I will fight for it as hard as I would anything else that I’ve championed over the last five years I’ve been in office,” said Maxwell, a city councilmember. At a news conference Monday, Maxwell and City Attorney Andrew Janz announced the first case filed by the unit. It’s against a hotel owner and construction contractor, who allegedly misspaid em…

Fresno City Attorney to prosecute first wage theft case

The Fresno City Attorney’s Office is prosecuting its first wage theft case on behalf of workers who were paid as little as $50 a day for construction work

FRESNO, California.- The city of Fresno announced on Monday legal actions against a company for the theft of the salary of nine workers, who claim that they were victims of non-payment, compensation below the minimum wage and unpaid overtime, among other abuses. This is the first action carried out by the city as part of the Program of Salary Protection under Bill 594 of the Assembly, which allows local governments to impose civil and criminal s…