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(BCN) – Nine Bay Area prosecutors will share $3.7 million in state grants to develop and implement wage theft enforcement programs, the state Department of Industrial Relations said Friday. The department said in a press release that the grants will enable prosecutors to address exploitative labor industry trends and obstacles workers confront in reporting violations. […]
A study by researchers at Harvard and UC San Francisco found that 91% of California service sector workers surveyed experienced at least one labor violation in the last year.