Northern California Restaurant Chain Taqueria Garibaldi Accused of Underpaying Workers and Withholding Tips | Eater SF

"I read that the owners of Taqueria Garibaldi, which operates three locations around the Sacramento area, have been accused in a federal complaint of underpaying workers, withholding some tips, and pressuring employees not to help federal investigators looking into the business’s labor practices. The complaint alleges employees regularly worked more than 40 hours a week but overtime was paid in cash and not at 1.5 times the regular rate, supervisors and managers were allowed to keep a portion of tips, and after the Labor Department began investigating the owners instructed workers to tell investigators that employees only worked forty hours a week, were provided two days off and thirty-minute breaks, and were paid only in checks; company leaders also had employees start tracking hours on handwritten timecards and then retroactively wrote forty-hour workweeks for past pay periods." - Lauren Saria