Feb 14
Dick Lee Pastry, San Francisco Restaurant, Accused Of Wage Theft, Ordered To Pay $525,000
Posted in: Today's ChiliA San Francisco restaurant was ordered to pay sizeable back wages and penalties after allegedly forcing employees to work up to 80 hours per week for under $4 per hour — less than half of the city’s minimum wage.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Dick Lee Pastry, a Chinatown dim sum and buffet restaurant, paid $525,000 in the settlement last week, the single largest payment the city has received in its ongoing effort to undermine wage theft.
Wage theft, the illegal withholding of wages or benefits, is widespread in the United States, particularly in urban centers with a high immigrant population. The problem has been significant in San Francisco, especially in the Chinatown neighborhood.
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