The report from Rutgers University found a rise in minimum wage violations in for major California cities, including San Diego.
A Carl's Jr. employee serves a customer through a drive-thru window in San Diego on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013.
"They never paid us for that. They barely paid us the minimum. We never saw a reimbursement," Quezada said in Spanish."It was a hassle waiting to get paid, getting paid, or going to the bank and not being able to cash the check. And I had to go look for them and call them," he said. "What we found is that across these four metro areas that we studied — which are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco — we estimate between $2.3 and $4.6 billion is being stolen from workers annually, just in terms of minimum wage theft," said Jake Barnes with the Workplace Justice Lab at Rutgers University.Barnes said the study found workers who were paid less than minimum wage lost, on average, about $4,000 or 20% of their total paycheck per year.
"These workers are across the board for the most part ... experiencing minimum wage violations at much higher rates ... than most other workers," he said, adding these are jobs often filled by people of color, women, or people who have less than a college education.
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