He said the department was investigating wage complaints filed by employees of the King Chef Buffet.
We'll pay it,' " said Bob Fick, a spokesman for the department, adding that unpaid wage complaints were not uncommon.
What's more, Unia report that at least another seven refugees were tricked into working for free by the firm, three of whom have since filed wage complaints of their own.
The Government Accountability Office sharply criticizes the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department in two reports to be issued on Tuesday, saying it mishandled many overtime and minimum-wage complaints and delayed investigating hundreds of cases for a year or more.
PAGE A14 CRITICISM OVER WAGE DISPUTES In two reports scheduled to be released, the Government Accountability Office sharply criticizes the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department, saying it mishandled overtime and minimum-wage complaints and delayed investigating hundreds of cases for a year or more.
Millions of peasants who migrate to urban factory jobs are frequently treated like bonded laborers, often working 18-hour days for half the minimum wage, the complaint asserts.
Members of the US women's football team recently filed a wage discrimination complaint against the sport's governing body, and the actor Jennifer Lawrence has spoken out about being paid less than male co-stars.
If I can wage one complaint against the spate of attention showered on this hack over the past few days is that both the original fish-eye spins I've seen – and the program's default projections (when I fired up Streetview Stereographic moments ago, up popped Zuccotti Park, epicenter of the Occupy movement) – have thus far been too busy, too cluttered.
After Mr. Zamora was fired, a friend told him to go to the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, which helps many workers file wage violation complaints.
Without legal status, undocumented workers have little choice but to accept rock-bottom wages without complaint, said the Rev. William Brisotti, administrator of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Roman Catholic Church in Wyandanch.
