Nine Bay Area prosecutors, including Contra Costa County, will share $3.7 million in state grants to develop and implement wage theft enforcement programs, the state Department of Industrial Relations said. The grants will enable prosecutors to address exploitative labor industry trends and obstacles workers confront in reporting violations, the department said in a press release.
The nine Bay Area public prosecutors who applied for the grants and the amounts they will receive are:
— Alameda District Attorney, $335,935
— Contra Costa District Attorney, $720,000
— Napa District Attorney, $102,531
— Oakland City Attorney, $425,655
— San Francisco City Attorney, $410,000
— San Francisco District Attorney, $160,451
— San Mateo District Attorney, $739,396
— Santa Clara County Counsel, $679,220
— Sonoma District Attorney, $147,275
“Wage theft is a persistent problem, and this funding helps address it in local communities across our state,” Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower said.
The Department of Industrial Relations Division of Labor Standards Enforcement combats wage theft and unfair competition by investigating allegations of illegal and unfair business practices.
And I thought the state was broke. Hmm.
DON,
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Government employees protect government employees.
AGREED !
Wow …what an approach…how would you like to slog through that …it’s the lawyers that will receive most of those funds….im lost
Wage theft cases, bull.
How about our taxpayer theft going on in Sac?!!
Exactly!!! They need to start with everything the ends in .ca.gov and of course the .govs.
This is where transparency can really be informative, and might cause these agency’s to rethink their strategies…………I would like to know how much the lawyers are paid and how much goes to the actual reason for the funds. Then have a outside accounting agency do the math.
The money will probably be used to hire extra help to handle the cases. If you want to know how much prosecutors make in California just go to Transparent California. You can also look up how much they get paid on Gov.jobs. or Google Contra Costa County job descriptions.
For what?? No one’s going to jail anyways
Most of it will be wasted on administrative red tape and other pet projects…. just watch
Go back and get all of the scammers who made a fortune during the scamdemic.
The stores won’t see none of that money that’s going to politicians like always
$3.7 million to recover $100 k because liberals cant do math
They hope to make it up in volume……….LOL