Restaurant workers awarded $300,000 in wage violation case
The owner of three Sonoma County Mexican restaurants will pay 28 employees hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages and damages as part of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor to settle federal wage violations. An investigation by the Wage and Hour Division in San Francisco discovered El Charro Casita Inc. and […]
Taxi company settles citation for employee misclassification and failing to provide workers’ compensation
A Santa Rosa, California, taxi company was held accountable for misclassifying its 30 drivers as independent contractors and refusing to provide them with worker’s compensation insurance coverage, is now settling its $522,300 citation. In October 2016, a Sonoma County Superior Court judge issued the A-C Transportation a Stop Order judgement for the company’s refusal to […]