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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The City of Fresno is cracking down connected wage theft done a Wage Protection Program that was launched connected Thursday.
On Thursday, Fresno City Councilmember Tyler Maxwell and City Attorney Andrew Janz launched the City of Fresno’s Wage Protection Program.
Wage theft tin instrumentality galore forms including paying beneath minimum wage, willful misclassification of employees, falsifying timesheets, not paying overtime, and unauthorized deductions.
"The hard-working radical of this metropolis merit to beryllium compensated reasonably and afloat for their labor," Maxwell said. "The fiscal occurrence of our Fresno families indispensable proceed to beryllium a apical precedence for this city."
Maxwell says that the motorboat of the caller programme is simply a captious measurement towards ensuring just attraction for each workers successful Fresno.
The metropolis says the programme volition guarantee that workers wrong the City of Fresno person the compensation they are legally entitled to by enforcing civilian and transgression enactment against employers committing wage theft.
The programme volition besides see workshops for employers and employees wherever they tin larn however the programme works, however to record a ailment and the champion practices to debar wage theft claims.
Wage Protection Workshops for Employees & Community Organizations:
- Aug. 20 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. astatine Fresno City Hall, Council Chambers
- Sept. 25 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. astatine Hoover High School, Cafeteria
- Dec. 10 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. connected Zoom
Wage Protection Workshops for Employers:
- Oct. 22 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. astatine DeWolf High School, Cafeteria
- Nov. 14 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. connected Zoom
If idiosyncratic believes they are a unfortunate of wage theft, ailment forms tin beryllium submitted done the City Attorney’s website.
