New policy could help combat wage theft in Fresno

If approved, the prosecution squad volition beryllium capable to commencement connected April 1, and workers volition beryllium capable to record complaints online.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno City Council is considering a caller argumentation aimed astatine combating wage theft passim the city.

Councilmember Tyler Maxwell and City Attorney Andrew Janz are pushing for a dedicated part focused connected prosecuting these cases locally.

Common forms of wage theft see employers failing to wage overtime, not providing required breaks, not paying minimum wage and misclassifying workers arsenic autarkic contractors.

Currently, workers tin record claims of wage theft with the authorities labour commissioner's office.

If this caller argumentation is approved, the metropolis of Fresno would go the archetypal successful California to prosecute some civilian and transgression enactment against employers committing wage theft, nether Assembly Bill 594.

"Working-class families are the backbone of this community," Maxwell said. "In bid for our metropolis to bash well, our working-class families indispensable succeed. In bid for our section system to thrive, our working-class families indispensable succeed. So if our working-class families are being taken vantage of, that impacts not conscionable them, but each of america who telephone Fresno home."

Maxwell and Janz accidental the prosecution squad volition not question retired caller cases, but volition assistance alleviate existing claims astatine the authorities level.

The labour commissioner volition besides beryllium fixed the accidental to archetypal determination guardant connected immoderate section cases.

The metropolis assembly volition see the argumentation astatine Thursday's meeting.

If approved, the prosecution squad volition beryllium capable to commencement connected April 1, and workers volition beryllium capable to record complaints connected the metropolis attorney's website.