{"id":25409,"date":"2024-08-30T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=25409"},"modified":"2024-09-03T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:45:05","slug":"employers-who-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/employers-who-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"San Mateo County Goes After Employers Who Defraud Their Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Employers who cheat are a concern for San Mateo County. A grant of nearly $740,000 was unanimously accepted, which will serve to strengthen efforts to investigate and prosecute deceitful employers who try to defraud their workers out of the wages they are entitled to.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors<\/a> unanimously accepted a grant of nearly $740,000, which will be used to strengthen efforts to investigate and prosecute deceitful employers who try to defraud their workers out of paying them the wages they are entitled to.<\/span><\/p>\n

The state grant will fund a new deputy district attorney and a supporting investigator, as well as provide additional forensic audit resources for the District Attorney's Office to investigate what are often complex cases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The county noted that the $739,396 grant provides funding as county officials launch a new Office of Labor Standards and Compliance, which will be a partnership between the County Executive's Office, the County Attorney's Office and the District Attorney's Office.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Board of Supervisors\u2019 approval of the District Attorney\u2019s Wage Theft Program will allow my office to investigate and prosecute employers who rob their employees of their hard-earned wages,\u201d said District Attorney Stephen M. Wagstaff. \u201cWith a full-time prosecutor and investigator, justice for employee victims is now possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The office, once established, will also work with employers to inform them of their rights and the rights of workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are grateful to District Attorney Wagstaffe, Deputy District Attorney Jill Nerone, and the District Attorney\u2019s Office for prioritizing the investigation and prosecution of these cases, providing justice for victims of wage theft, and ultimately deterring others from abusing vulnerable workers in this manner,\u201d said Supervisor Ray Mueller, who along with Supervisor Dave Pine presented the proposal to create the office to the full Board.<\/span><\/p>\n

Local officials say there is a pressing need to devote more resources to preventing and investigating wage theft.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to experts, low-wage earners, women, people of color, non-English speaking workers, and the foreign-born are at particular risk of wage theft.<\/span><\/p>\n

Examples of wage theft include unpaid wages, being paid less than minimum wage, failure to accrue sick leave or overtime pay, and unauthorized payroll deductions, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to create the Office of Labor Standards and Enforcement with the mission of helping victims of wage theft recover stolen wages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Escucha esta nota:   El condado de San Mateo acept\u00f3 por unanimidad una subvenci\u00f3n de casi 740 mil d\u00f3lares, mismos que servir\u00e1n para fortalecer los esfuerzos para investigar y procesar a los empleadores tramposos que intentan estafar sus trabajadores para no darles el salario que les corresponden. La subvenci\u00f3n estatal financiar\u00e1 un nuevo fiscal adjunto […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25505,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25409\/revisions\/25505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}