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CASES

Main cases that the WJC & CJT has addressed over the last few years.

·         Judy's Café: Failure to pay minimum wage.

 

·         John's Grill: Not providing meal breaks and withholding tips.

 

·         Home Restaurant: Failure to provide breaks and sexual harassment

 

·         Cheesecake Factory: Non-payment of wages due, “time-shaving” off of timecards.

 

·         Baccanal Restaurant: Failure to provide breaks or tips earned.

 

·         Mandarin Restaurant: Failure to pay breaks or overtime.

 

·         Lori's Diner: Sexual harassment and discrimination, failure to provide meal breaks to pregnant employees, failure to provide workers’ compensation.         

 

·         Martha & Bros. Coffee Company: Failure to pay minimum wage.

 

·         Trader Vic's: Failure to provide breaks and illegal withholding of tips.  

 

·         Si Señor Taqueria: Failure to pay minimum wage. Illegal retaliation and defamation. Pregnancy discrimination.

 

·         Roxie Food Market: Minimum wage violations.

 

·         Steak Escape: Verbal and physical abuse of workers, failure to provide lockers and tip jars. Racial harassment of customers.

·         Bladerunners Salon: Non-payment of wages for hours worked. 

 

·         Absinthe: Failure to provide breaks

·         Zazzle.com: Non-payment of wages.

 

·         Best Maintenance: Failure to pay minimum wage or overtime.

 

·         Rositas Bakery: Not paying for all hours worked. 

 

·         Tempura House: Not paying minimum wage, not giving breaks, and not paying for overtime.

 

·         GMG Janitorial: No paying for all hours worked. 

 

·         Lost Ladle: No paying for all hours worked. 

 

·         Tres Agaves: No paying for all hours worked, not paying overtime, and not giving breaks.

 

·         Zazil: No paying for all hours worked, mistreating employees, and not giving breaks. 

 

·         Pompeii’s Grotto: No paying for all hours worked. 

 

·         Bella Luca: Not paying minimum wage.

 

·         Pinocchio Restaurant: No paying for all hours worked. 

 

·         Trattoria Volare: No paying for all hours worked. 

 

·         San Francisco Brewing Company: Not giving breaks, not paying for overtime, and mistreating employees. 

 

·         Roxanne/Solano/Cesario’s/Piraat/Persimmon: Not paying minimum wage, not giving breaks

 

·         Papa Portrero's Pizza: mistreating employees, not giving breaks, not paying minimum wage, not paying for overtime.

 

Steak Escape
Immigrant workers at a restaurant in the San Francisco Shopping Center food court fight back against an abusive manager and win concrete improvements on the job.

Si Se~or Taqueria
Immigrant worker stood up for her rights in the workplace in the face of discrimination and retaliation by her employer. With the help of YWU and community supporters, she was able to win thousands of dollars in back wages to her and the workers.