Restaurant Ordered to Pay $140K for Hiring Fake Priest to Extract "Sins" From Employees

The owners of Taqueria Garibaldi hired a man posing as a priest to hear confessions from employees about on-the-job “sins.”
The Department of Labor investigation found the restaurant denied employees overtime pay, paid managers illegally from employee tip pools, threatened retaliation against workers, and fired an employee for complaining.
The fake priest had no affiliation with the Catholic Church.
Owners have been ordered to pay $70,000 in damages to 35 employees.
The taqueria was also fined $5,000 for the “willful nature of the violations.”