The owners and operators of Che Garibaldi – operator of Taqueria Garibaldi – have been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to 35 restaurant employees after they allegedly tapped the services of a person identified as a priest to force workers to confess “workplace sins”.
During litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor in federal court, an employee of Che Garibaldi told the court the priest urged workers to “get the sins out”. The priest also asked employees of the northern California restaurant if they had stolen from the employer, been late for work, had done anything to harm their employer or if they had bad intentions toward their employer.
