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WTNH - DeLauro Pushes for Chipotle Wage Theft Investigation

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Date: Sept. 28, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action

By Unknown

Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro is pushing the U.S. Labor Department to investigate Chipolte restaurants over allegations of wage theft.

Nearly 10,000 workers from around the country have filed a class-action lawsuit against Chipotle, claiming they were forced to work "off the clock" hours without being paid.

"Wage and hour violations pose a serious and growing problem for working Americans across industries, and wage theft disproportionately affects low-wage, hourly workers. A 2008 survey conducted by the National Employment Law Center of 4,387 low-wage workers in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago found that 68 percent of them experienced some form of wage theft in the workweek immediately before the survey was conducted," DeLauro wrote in a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor urging them to open an investigation.


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