The Auditor's Office will have a powerful tool with the likely passage of the Denver Labor subpoena bill.
can do to get information from employers — such as employee lists and payroll records — to prove that others are being underpaid as well. Denver City Council will be holding a final vote during a 3:30 p.m. meeting this afternoon, April 29, on a subpoena bill from Denver Labor that would give it the legal power to request info, by way of a formal written court order, pertaining to wage theft reviews.
Council Members Sarah Parady and Amanda Sawyer co-sponsored the subpoena bill, which is expected to pass unanimously under a council with six new members since 2021. A second bill supporting this"common-sense tool" has been introduced for the office's Audit Services Division, according to officials. Overschmidt says the museum did not want to give investigators full access to the owner list and the audit was ultimately closed without all of the requested information and with an"impairment" in it.
Under the proposed subpoena law, private employers will now be fined $1,000 a day until they provide the requested information; the payments will be indefinite. A recent Denver wage theft case that could have benefitted greatly from the subpoena power, according to Overschmidt and Fritz-Mauer, was a case in which a worker at the popular Mexican restaurant Kahlo's was paid below the local minimum wage to the tune of $21,083.20.
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