A restaurant must pay workers $140,000 after allegedly hiring a fake priest to extract confessions of workers’ ‘sins’

Restaurant Hired 'Priest' to 'Get the Sins Out' of Confessing Workers

A restaurant hired a “priest” to “get the sins out” of its workers in an elaborate scheme to figure out if they had been late to work, stolen anything from the company, or done anything else to harm their employer, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The restaurant, Taqueria Garibaldi in Sacramento, was being investigated by the DOL for supposedly violating labor law by denying workers overtime pay. During the investigation, the Departmen…

California Taqueria Chain Fined $140K For Hiring Fake Priest to Hear Workplace Confessions

A taqueria chain in California was fined after federal investigators found the owners had hired a fake priest to get their employees to admit wrongdoing. U.S. Department of Labor fined Che Garibaldi Inc. $140,000 after launching an investigation into the business in November of 2021. The company owns three Taqueria Garibaldi locations and hired someone to pose as a priest and “get the sins” out of staff members by offering confession during work…

Restaurant Hired Fake Priest To Extract Confessions From Workers, Feds Say

The owners of a California taqueria chain have been ordered to pay $140,000 in back pay and damages to employees who met with a “person identified as a priest” to confess workplace sins. What do you think?Read more...

Restaurant Allegedly Used Fake Priest To Get Employees To Confess Workplace 'Sins'

The owners and operators of a California chain were ordered to pay workers $140,000 in back wages and damages.

The alleged religious had been hired by the Taquería Garibaldi restaurant in Sacramento to extract information from employees through confessions

California restaurateurs fined for priest-confession scam to trick workers

The owners of a pair of taco restaurants in Northern California were ordered to pay $140,000 in back pay and damages to 35 employees for bringing in a purported priest to extract confessions of workplace misconduct.