USA: Ecuadorian workers employed at New York HotHead Grabba tobacco factory file wage theft complaints; incl. co comment
要約
Date Reported: 2024年4月23日
場所: アメリカ合衆国
企業
HotHead Grabba - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: 2
移住者・移民労働者: ( 2 - エクアドル , 消費者製品/小売: 一般 , Men , Unknown migration status )課題
Wage Theft , Minimum Wage , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Denial of leave , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , 表現の自由の否定 , 情報へのアクセス , Occupational Health & Safety , 傷害 , 病気 , Excessive production targets回答
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
取られた措置: A message sent to HotHead Grabba by the journalists did not receive a response.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
“Migrant Men Allege ‘Grabba’ Sweatshop Stole Their Earnings in New Complaint”
Two Ecuadorian migrants working in a Queens factory packaging loose “grabba” tobacco sold by a popular New York-based street brand have filed wage theft complaints to the state labor department, alleging thousands of dollars of unpaid labor and overtime.
The complaint against HotHead Grabba LLC comes weeks after women in a Brooklyn factory filed papers against the company with the New York State Department of Labor and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration alleging wage theft and dangerous working conditions, as previously reported by THE CITY.
In the new complaints to the state DOL, submitted April 11, the two male workers assert they typically worked between 10 and 13 hours a day, seven days a week at an Ozone Park assembly line packing tobacco into five-gram plastic tubes for sale in retail outlets for several weeks in November and December…
A message sent to HotHead Grabba’s Instagram account Monday did not receive a response. Last month, a message from the account called “false” the initial wage theft allegations from women who had worked at the Brooklyn factory.
“How can we ever owe someone thousands of dollars we don’t offer that kind of help here, it’s impossible so,” the message read…