Algunos trabajadores de restaurantes trabajan en esclavitud del día moderno
Diana todavía ni estaba en la escuela media cuando fue forzada a trabajar días largos en un restaurante.
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Burned: Abuse in LA’s Restaurant Industry
Hard work put Esteban Romero on the street. He says his employer owes him $16,000 in overtime pay.
California Labor Commissioner Julie Su is working to put an end to retaliation and threats in the restaurant industry.
Restaurant kitchens are full of knives, ovens, pots of boiling water. But if someone gets hurt they might have to keep working.
“The first time he did it, I couldn’t believe what had happened to me,” says Maria Vazquez.
"I didn’t do anything wrong to deserve this,” says "Diana" who was bought for $10,000 and forced to work.
Diana todavía ni estaba en la escuela media cuando fue forzada a trabajar días largos en un restaurante.
Diana wasn’t even in middle school yet when she was forced to work long days in a restaurant.
Sexual assault and harassment are often hidden and underreported in large part because the victims tend to be immigrant women who are afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs.
Fear of deportation or being fired keeps restaurant workers silent when injuries in the kitchen force them to stop working.
Stolen paychecks. No workers comp. No overtime, or breaks for meals. These are some of the conditions LA’s low-wage kitchen staff have faced on the job. Yet fear of retaliation keeps many silent.
KCRW reviewed over 2300 wage claims filed by LA area restaurant workers between January 2013 through May 2016 in the Los Angeles and Long Beach offices of the Labor Commissioner.…
Unscrupulous employers can operate outside the law for years with few consequences, while others turn to legal loopholes and corporate shell games to avoid paying workers what they’re owed.
Walk into any restaurant in Los Angeles and you’ll likely read menus boasting of free-range meat, free-trade coffee and cruelty free poultry, allowing patrons to eat with a conscience. Some restaurants proudly show off their A grades from the health department as evidence of a clean kitchen. But nowhere do these establishments show their record of fairness to employees.