{"id":2026,"date":"2015-06-30T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomnetworkusa.org\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:56:11","slug":"ca-labor-commissioner-awards-138386-to-caretaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedomnetworkusa.org\/2015\/06\/30\/ca-labor-commissioner-awards-138386-to-caretaker\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Labor Commissioner Awards $138,386 to Caretaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

California labor laws are being enforced in the city of San Francisco to protect California laborers who are particularly susceptible to wage theft.\u00a0 These workers are often entitled to compensation exceeding backed wages due to minimum wage laws, including severance pay violations, liquidated damages and waiting time penalties.\u00a0 If workers are able to submit a complaint within the statute of limitations timeframe, they can often recover significant lost wages. Community organizations Mujeres Unidas y Activas and the Legal Aid Society\u2013Employment Law Center recently assisted in a labor case awarded in favor of laborers by the California Labor Commissioner.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su. has awarded back pay in the amount of $138,386 to a caregiver who worked 16-hour days in San Francisco without adequate compensation.\u00a0 Francisca Vasquez, a Salvadorian war refugee, was hired in 1992 by two siblings to work as a caregiver and companion for their elderly parents.\u00a0 Vasquez was originally paid $400 per month, and later $500 per month as she took on housekeeping and round-the-clock care for the sibling\u2019s ailing mother.\u00a0 Upon the death of the mother, Vasquez was discharged from her position.<\/p>\n

The labor commissioner awarded her:<\/p>\n