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The Department of Labor has ordered a taqueria chain in California to pay a total of $140,000 in back wages and damages to 35 employees after businesses owners committed a number of infractions, the oddest of all included hiring a fake priest to extract confessions of “sins” from employees.
Taqueria Garibaldi, a restaurant with a location in Sacramento and Roseville, was at the center of the controversy.
The fake priest had no affiliation with the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, authorities said.“Our own investigation found no evidence of any connection between the Diocese of Sacramento and the alleged priest in this matter,” Bryan J. Visitacion, director of media and communications for the Diocese of Sacramento, toldThe Catholic News Agencylast week. “While we don’t know who the person in question was, we are completely confident he was not a priest of the Diocese of Sacramento.”
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PEOPLE reached out to Che Garibaldi Inc. for comment.
“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,” Regional Solicitor of Labor Marc Pilotin said in a release.
source: people.com
