USA: Ecuadorian workers employed at New York HotHead Grabba tobacco factory file wage theft complaints; incl. co comment
요약
보고된 날짜: 2024년 4월 23일
위치: 미국
기업 페이지
HotHead Grabba - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 2
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 2 - 에콰도르 , 소비자 제품/소매: 일반 , Men , Unknown migration status )토픽들
임금 착취 , 최저임금 , 강간과 성적 학대 , 휴가 박탈 , 비사법적 구제절차에 대한 접근성 , 표현의 자유 , 정보 접근성 , 산업 안전 및 보건 , 상해 , 질병 , 과도한 생산 목표결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Journalist에 의해 요청됨
시행된 조치: A message sent to HotHead Grabba by the journalists did not receive a response.
출처: 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…