With the university home, could you give us some examples of wage theft in the Nursing Home Industry . Yeah, i deal a lot with the care home industry which is a smaller facility. Theyre usually a sixbed facility. It is either elderly individuals or folks with Developmental Disabilities that receive funding through private or through the state. The common practice in those care homes, small Residential Care homes is to hire one or two individuals to take care of the residents in the facility and pay them a certain flat rate. So, youll hear testimony actually in the Public Comment section from a woman who worked in one of these facilities who came forward and complained about the conditionses and a collaboration that largely came out of the task force, with we were able to collect wages through attorney and [speaker not understood] being involved in the community center. These individuals work up to 17, 18, 24 hours a day sometimes, for a flat rate of 60 a day. And 60 does not compensate
Departments, perhaps including agency that were not sitting on the task force but do have a part to play, the ongoing collaboration among the city departments is of utmost importance. We also recommended that if its not already inherent and in permits and Business Licenses and in other city regulations, that the board of supervisors should act to authorize city departments to suspend or revoke permit business he that violate wage theft laws. And finally, information showing this is one of the big challenges we discovered, but that some ways for agencies in the city to coordinate data around business data through the interactions of businesses uniformly to violators can be tracked. We have had specific recommendations directed at the agencies that sat on the task force, and most of these recommendations were amazingly generated by the agencies themselves about ways that they could more efficiently participate in the fight against wage theft. Their recommendation was that the City Attorn
Requirements. And since then we have been using a general clause in the California Retail food code and the Health Code Department with olrc, the workers and the communitybased organizations in recouping wages for workers. For example, this is how it usually goes. When either olrc or the [speaker not understood] department of labor standard enforcement requires [speaker not understood] pay back wage, the owner is still recalcitrant in complying, olrc will file a complaint with the Health Department and the Health Department would hold a hearing with the director of Public Health to consider permit suspension or revocation. Although this does not prevent wage theft, this model of keeping the owners accountable for complying with applicable Business Laws has been really helpful to olrcs efforts. Its very helpful to worker to recoup some of the wages more quickly. And im sure it helps promote Good Business practices. So, in order to can i just ask you, so, withholding of permits by the de
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