Saturday, July 26, 2008

NYSDOL Finds Rampant Wage and Hour Violations Against Chinese Immigrants in Garment Factory Jin Shun in Queens

See NYSDOL Finds Rampant Wage and Hour Violations in Queens factory, NYT, 7/24/08

-Queens workplace was sweatshop
-rampant overtime and wage and hour violations
-100 ees worked 7 day workweeks, shortened lunch periods
-employers encouraged workers to lie to investigators, falsify time cards
-$5.3 million owed
-made clothes for Victoria's Secret, Urban Outfitters

1 comment:

Randallv said...

When auditing my firm, the DOL mismatched the pay-periods and paychecks across the board - yet insist we pay their "unpaid wages" anyway. When I raised the point they replied: "sorry we're out of time." What recourse do we have?