'Alleged priest' spied on restaurant workers, pushed them to

[Tennesseer]

Deplorable people.

'Alleged priest' spied on restaurant workers, pushed them to confess workplace 'sins': officials

The owners of multiple California restaurants will have to shell out thousands in damages to former employees and fines after they were busted hiring a supposed priest to spy on workers and extract confessions of workplace "sins."

"Federal wage and hour investigators have seen corrupt employers try all kinds of scams to shortchange workers and to intimidate or retaliate against employees but a northern California restaurant’s attempt to use an alleged priest to get employees to admit workplace ‘sins’ may be among the most shameless," the U.S. Department of Labor said in a release last week.

The release comes after Che Garibaldi Inc., the parent company of two Taqueria Garibaldi restaurants in Sacramento and one location in Roseville, agreed to a consent judgment last month in the case, according to the Labor Department.

The judgment comes after a witness told the department that owners Eduardo Hernandez, Hector Manual Martinez Galindo and Alejandro Rodriguez hired a "priest" to hear employee confessions at work. According to the witness, the supposed priest would encourage employees to "get the sins out," asking if they had ever stolen from their employer, had done anything to hurt the company, been late to work or had any bad intentions toward the company.

Rest of article here: 'Alleged priest' spied on restaurant workers, pushed them to confess workplace 'sins': officials

[toomuchreality]

Oh, my word. What will they think of next?
The owners have too much time and too much money on their hands, if they're paying a supposed priest to do this!
Whacked!

[djAdvocate]

business-people should focus on business.

[Opti]

I think its also useful to note that not just white men exploit immigrants. My guess these are spanish speakers who look for recent immigrants who are Catholic and unlikely to speak up on their own behalf. And if TV is to be believed there are general prostitution rings run by Asians and Russians usually pulling from the poor in their mother countries.

I am glad these folks are getting their back wages and I hope some of them have a better path forward whether it is in CA or a country safer than their home country.