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Wage enforcement action wins back pay for AV workers

by The AV Times Staff • January 15, 2019

LOS ANGELES – A dozen workers in the Antelope Valley will receive $23,705 in back pay and penalties based on a minimum wage enforcement action announced Tuesday.

The Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs settled with Charlie Brown Farms, a business in unincorporated Littlerock that failed to pay the correct minimum wage to the workers.

“The business owners reached a settlement agreement… and are working in coordination with investigators to pay all back wages due and penalties owed to the 12 employees,” according to a news release by the Department of Consumer and Business Affairs.

“All employees in Los Angeles County deserve to be compensated fairly for their hard work,” DCBA Director Joseph Nicchitta said in the news release. “Business owners must understand and pay their workers the correct minimum wage. If they’re unsure about their obligations to their employees, they should contact our wage enforcement team.”

The current minimum wage in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, including Littlerock, Quartz Hill, and Lake Los Angeles, is $13.25 per hour for businesses with 26 or more employees and $12 an hour for businesses with 25 or fewer workers.

Employees who believe they are not being paid the correct minimum wage and employers with questions about compliance can contact the department at 800-593-8222 or visit www.dcba.lacounty.gov/minimum-wage.

Since July 2016, the DCBA has helped more than 1,250 employees recover more than $186,000 in unpaid wages.

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Filed Under: Business, Lake Los Angeles, Littlerock

13 comments for "Wage enforcement action wins back pay for AV workers"

  1. Southsider Rejects says

    February 25, 2019 at 11:01 pm

    The investigator mafia.

  2. Compensation says

    January 16, 2019 at 5:22 pm

    I’m glad that the employees received their rightful wages and compensation from CBF.

  3. Dj says

    January 16, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    Again with the political adjenda, I thought the article was about lost wages and back pay. It can’t be about politics all the time. Time to move on just saying….

  4. Tyty says

    January 16, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    Shame on you Charlie Brown Farms, I shop there often, but not more after this.
    Every time I been there is busy and crowded, everything it’s over price, that means you make plenty of money, pay your employees, give them yearly bonus! Come on

    • Littlerock Holdover says

      February 26, 2019 at 12:34 pm

      This is on the back of the Littlerock Town Council for supporting this buisness bully no mater what they do in Littlerock. Shame on them!!

  5. Bob says

    January 16, 2019 at 5:36 am

    Republitards love to vote against their economic interests, pay the correct wages, don’t be greedy…

  6. Josh says

    January 15, 2019 at 7:13 pm

    There goes another AV landmark at the hands of liberal Democratic Party.

    • Ariana says

      January 15, 2019 at 8:07 pm

      You Republicans need to stop thinking you’re above the law and that you don’t need to follow the rules.

      • Rm says

        January 15, 2019 at 8:20 pm

        Democrats sharkbait hoohaahaa!

    • Tim Scott says

      January 16, 2019 at 12:20 pm

      LOL…because paying people for their work is a liberal idea…conservatives long for the good old days of slavery.

      • AV Illegal says

        January 16, 2019 at 3:00 pm

        Huh, a business owner does not pay the correct minimum wage and suddenly it is a partisan debate with racism and slavery thrown in for good measure. Way to go. Right out of the playbook.

      • John Galt says

        February 3, 2019 at 9:03 am

        And read a little history. The democrats were the party of slavery, racist Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan.

        • William says

          February 3, 2019 at 11:01 pm

          Uh, Mr. Galt

          History did not end back then. Now, it’s reversed. It’s the republicans who suppress votes, especially for minorites, and the “go to” party for the Klan. And, that’s just for starters.

          Got it?

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