Staff at several Subway stores in San Francisco missed out on $265,000 of wages after the franchisee gave them checks that bounced, Labor Department says
Staff working for a number of Subway franchise stores in California missed out on $265,000 of wages after their employer paid them in checks that bounced, the Department of LaborJohn Michael Meza, an owner and operator of Subway franchises in the San Francisco Bay Area, paid his staff at least $265,294 in checks that bounced because the accounts had insufficient funds, the department said in a press release.
Vince Chhabria, district judge at the US District Court for the Northern District of California, ordered Meza in a preliminary injunction on May 19 to repay staff the wages they are owed and reimburse employees for any bad check fees they were required to pay. In addition, employees under the age of 16 sustained"severe burns" from operating high-temperature toasters and ovens, the DOL said. It also wrote that a 15-year-old employee injured his arm and toe after Meza's wife directed him to climb a ladder and he fell.
"Defendants have gone to great lengths to hide their willful safety and wage violations: they direct employees to falsify time records and retaliated against, intimidated and threatened their employees to discourage them from cooperating," the DOL wrote in the lawsuit.
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