After complaining about not receiving his final paycheck of $915, a worker named Andreas discovered 91,500 pennies dropped off in his driveway by his es-boss.
A pay stub with an expletive written on it was left on top of the pile of cooper coins that were covered with oil.
Miles Walker the owner of A OK Walker Autoworks decided to pay Andreas in pennies on March 12, 2021 after learning the former employee made a complaint with the US Dept of Labor.
An investigation by the Dept of Labor found that in addition to retaliating against Andreas, Andreas and 8 other workers weren't properly paid for working overtime. Walker and his company will now have to pay $39,934
in back wages and liquidated damages to the 9 workers.
In another payroll story, a California restaurant hired a fake priest to extract confessions out of workers for their work "sins".
A restaurant in CA was ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages after it hired a priest to extract workers' confessions, in what federal investigators are calling the most shameless acts of corruption an employer has taken against his staff. The restaurant in northern CA hired a fake priest to hear confessions during work hours and get the sins out, including asking them if they had been late for work, stolen money from the restaurant or had "bad intentions" towards their employer.
The restaurant owner was forced to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to 35 employees. The investigation also found that the restaurant denied employees overtime pay, managers were paid bonuses from the employee tip pool and some employees faced "adverse immigration consequences" for cooperating with investigators.
Hadley C. Margolis is a SHRM certified Human Resource Manager and is President at Best Payroll where he has offered customers a diversified group of financial fulfillment tools designed to streamline financial processing tasks since 1989. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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