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California restaurant had fake priest hear workers’ confessions, Labor Department says (www.catholicnewsagency.com)
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According to an employee at the restaurant, the supposed priest urged employees to “get the sins out.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh... so were the employees told that their restaurant was also a church? They're splitting a pool of $70k in damages? What were the damages exactly? "I told a fake priest stuff." That's damages? Sure, there's fraud... but damages? I thought going to confession was free.

Sorry, I guess I have more questions than answers after reading that article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of the money is due to this:

"Investigators said the restaurant denied overtime pay to employees and illegally paid managers from the employee tip pool. The employers threatened employees with retaliation and immigration-related consequences for cooperating with investigators and fired one worker they believed had complained to the Labor Department."