O.C. Garment Factory Fined for Back Wages
A U.S. District Court judge ordered an Orange County, Calif., garment factory to pay its employees nearly $173,000 in back wages plus pay nearly $25,000 in penalties.
After a seven-day trial where many former employees testified about their working conditions, Judge Cormac J. Carney on May 3 ordered Best Miracle Corp. in Santa Ana, Calif., to reimburse overtime back wages plus interest to 47 of its workers, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The court concluded that the defendants, Toan Van Nguyen and Thuy Thi Li, owners of the factory, “brazenly disregarded the Fair Labor Standards Act by exploiting low-wage garment workers and requiring them to work long hours without proper compensation.”—Deborah Belgum
