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Prosecutors have already been busy holding employers who steal from their workers accountable. L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón’s office filed criminal charges last fall against garment industry business ownersfor allegedly stealing more than $500,000 in overtime wages from 18 employees just two months later. According to the D.A.'s office, Jack Tucey died in December.
“We want to make sure that the employers that are willing to steal from the workers, that they are going to also be paying the consequences of that,” he said in an interview with LAist last fall.revealed that 2.4 million low-wage workers in the 10 most populous states lose $8 billion annually in minimum wage violations.California Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower called wage theft a serious and costly crime.
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