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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Starting Aug. 1, radical tin commencement filling retired an online signifier to the City of Fresno Attorney's Office to analyse and prosecute leader wage theft successful Fresno.
On Feb. 1, the Fresno City Council authorized City Attorney Andrew Janz to combat and prosecute leader wage theft.
In May, the authorities awarded the City Attorney's Office with a $720,000 assistance to make a caller wage theft prosecution team.
"These are radical that spell to enactment each day, they enactment hard. They enactment hard for their paychecks. And truthful determination needs to beryllium idiosyncratic that steps up and goes to bat for these folks due to the fact that they truly haven't had a dependable until now," Janz said.
People tin capable retired a form, answering respective questions regarding their incidental earlier the Attorney's bureau moves guardant with the case.
"What's required connected determination is name, information, who you enactment for, a basal summary of what the allegations are, and you person an quality to taxable oregon upload documents," Janz said.
City Attorney Janz says the wage theft contented is prevalent successful Fresno.
"Here successful Fresno, we estimation anyplace betwixt 1 and $2 cardinal annually successful presumption of wage theft. So that benignant of gives you an thought of however problematic this contented is," Janz said.
Justice for victims of wage theft is the main extremity of the website.
"Business owners retired there, if you're doing the close thing, you know, we're not coming aft you. We're truly going aft the atrocious actors and the radical that person systematically taken vantage of people," Janz said.
For much accusation astir the metropolis attorney's bureau wage theft website, click here.
