{"id":48482,"date":"2016-10-18T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo2016.hispanicprwire.com\/english-san-diego-residential-care-company-violated-overtime-minimum-wage-laws-15-caregivers-to-receive-over-1-1-million-in-back-wages-damages\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T19:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T23:31:43","slug":"compania-de-cuidado-residencial-de-san-diego-violo-leyes-de-tiempo-extra-y-sueldo-minimo-15-cuidadores-recibiran-mas-de-1-1-millones-en-sueldos-retrasados-y-danos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/compania-de-cuidado-residencial-de-san-diego-violo-leyes-de-tiempo-extra-y-sueldo-minimo-15-cuidadores-recibiran-mas-de-1-1-millones-en-sueldos-retrasados-y-danos\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Residential Care Company Violated Overtime, Minimum Wage Laws; 15 Caregivers to Receive Over $1.1 Million in Back Wages, Damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p\/>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN DIEGO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 10, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <\/p>\n<p><b>Employer: <\/b><span class=\"xn-person\">Gerald Como<\/span>, doing business as Family Residential Care LLC and Del Cerro Assisted Living<\/p>\n<p><b>Sites: <\/b>6233 Wenrich Drive, <span class=\"xn-person\">Del Cerro<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span><br \/>1308 Hacienda Drive, <span class=\"xn-location\">El Cajon, California<\/span><br \/>1308 Hacienda Drive, <span class=\"xn-location\">El Cajon, California<\/span><br \/>6150 <span class=\"xn-person\">Bob Street<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">La Mesa, California<\/span><br \/>5615 Ashland Street, <span class=\"xn-person\">Del Cerro<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Investigation findings: <\/b>The California Labor Commissioner&#8217;s Office launched its investigation in <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 2015<\/span> after receiving an anonymous tip. Investigators found the residential care business in violation of minimum wage, overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the California Labor Code. The employer paid the 15 caregivers less than <span class=\"xn-money\">$4<\/span> an hour for 24-hour shifts five days a week. The workers, most of them women who recently emigrated from <span class=\"xn-location\">the Philippines<\/span>, were obliged to sleep in the rooms with their patients and pay their employer <span class=\"xn-money\">$180<\/span> each week for food and lodging. <\/p>\n<p><b>Resolution:<\/b> The employer must pay the 15 workers <span class=\"xn-money\">$331,843<\/span> in lost minimum wages, <span class=\"xn-money\">$386,602<\/span> in overtime wages and <span class=\"xn-money\">$393,158<\/span> in liquidated damages. When workers are paid less than minimum wage they are entitled to liquidated damages, which equal the amount of underpaid wages plus interest. The caregivers&#8217; back wages owed range from <span class=\"xn-money\">$4,326 to $45,401<\/span> depending on the amount of time worked.<\/p>\n<p><b>Quote: <\/b>&#8220;Caregivers who serve our elderly and disabled perform some of the most important and valuable work in our state and often work long hours to do so,&#8221; said Labor Commissioner <span class=\"xn-person\">Julie A. Su<\/span>. &#8220;Paying them for all of the hours they work is not only the fair thing to do, it is required by law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Information: <\/b>The Department of Industrial Relations&#8217; Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, also known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dir.ca.gov\/DLSE\/dlse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Labor Commissioner&#8217;s Office<\/a>, inspects workplaces for wage and hour violations, adjudicates wage claims, investigates retaliation complaints, issues licenses and registrations for businesses, enforces prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship standards in public works projects, and educates the public on labor laws. Its <a href=\"http:\/\/wagetheftisacrime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wage Theft is a Crime<\/a> multilingual public awareness campaign was launched in 2014 to help inform workers of their rights and employers of their responsibilities. <\/p>\n<p><b>Press Contact: <\/b>Members of the press may contact <span class=\"xn-person\">Paola Laverde<\/span> or <span class=\"xn-person\">Peter Melton<\/span> at (510) 286-1161, and are encouraged to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dir.ca.gov\/email\/listsub.asp?choice=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">subscribe to get email alerts<\/a> on DIR&#8217;s press releases or other departmental updates.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dir.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">California Department of Industrial Relations<\/a>, established in 1927, protects and improves the health, safety, and economic well-being of over 18 million wage earners, and helps their employers comply with state labor laws. DIR is housed within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labor.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Labor &amp; Workforce Development Agency<\/a>. For general inquiries, contact DIR&#8217;s Communications Call Center at 844-LABOR-DIR (844-522-6734) for help in locating the appropriate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dir.ca.gov\/Contactus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">division or program<\/a> in our department.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p \/>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN DIEGO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 10, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <\/p>\n<p><b>Employer: <\/b><span class=\"xn-person\">Gerald Como<\/span>, doing business as Family Residential Care LLC and Del Cerro Assisted Living<\/p>\n<p><b>Sites: <\/b>6233 Wenrich Drive, <span class=\"xn-person\">Del Cerro<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span><br \/>1308 Hacienda Drive, <span class=\"xn-location\">El Cajon, California<\/span><br \/>1308 Hacienda Drive, <span class=\"xn-location\">El Cajon, California<\/span><br \/>6150&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}