Papa John’s franchisee is Going to Jail

[James48]

Source: Fortune Magazine

A Papa John’s franchisee received a jail sentence after being charged earlier this year with not paying workers minimum wage and with falsifying documents.

Abdul Jamil Khokhar, who owns nine Papa John’s locations in New York City with BMY Foods, pled guilty to failing to pay workers in compliance with the New York Labor Law, which is a misdemeanor, and to filing false business records, a felony.

As it’s stated on the Attorney General’s website, instead of paying his employees the proper minimum overtime wages according to New York State law, Khokhar paid them the same minimum wage they would make during regular hours. To hide this illegal practice, he created fake identities under which the employees would file their overtime hours to make it look as if they were distributed among more workers. As was previously reported by Fortune, this affected the wages of over 300 current and former employees.

A civil settlement secured by the U.S. Department of Labor in July of this year required Khokhar to pay $230,000 in damages and $50,000 in civil monetary penalties. He must also pay an additional $230,000 in back pay and spend 60 days in jail, as was agreed upon during his sentencing as part of his plea deal

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About time a crook goes to jail....

[MrWendel]

1. The pizza alone...

should be cause for people to go to jail.

[madaboutharry]

2. Lol!

[hibbing]

4. ba da ding!

Hahahahaha, can always use a good laugh in this screwed up world, thanks!

Peace

[NuclearDem]

5. Legally Ingredients. Legally Pizza.

Papa John's.

[bigwillq]

6. This. It's so bad.

It's not pizza. It's crap.

[47of74]

7. Yeah, it's greasy cardboard disgusied as pizza.

It gives me a stomach ache

[rpannier]

8. Certainly sends enough to the emergency room

[Midnight Writer]

3. Geez, Jail Time for just screwing his employees out of their pay? What a concept!

[A Simple Game]

9. Not quite, misdemeanor for screwing the 300 employees, felony for screwing the government.

Shows where the priorities are, doesn't it?

I assume the jail time is for the felony and not the misdemeanor.

[Midnight Writer]

13. Of course. Silly me.

[A Simple Game]

14. Not silly at all, common sense would tell us that screwing 300 people would be the

greater offense than screwing a government. But we aren't dealing with common sense, we are dealing with politicians that want to finance and perpetuate their jobs.

[fasttense]

10. Under paying employees and no overtime wages are routine labor practices around here

In TN it's ignored and the thieves who fail to pay their workers are honored as good businessmen. In fact farmers specifically hunt for immigrants who speak very little English and who aren't so smart.

One farmer I heard complaining that all his workers were deported and he couldn't find anyone to work for him in the hay fields. Of course he never said that he didn't pay minimum wage and worked his employees round the clock until the field was finished.

[JLTaylor]

11. Wow

This is how the world works these days, all about the money, who cares about your employees. To bad this was not done to the bankers/lenders who ripped off millions of people. Papa Johns Head Office should also be taken to task, how about doing periodic check ins with franchisees AND Staff at each location.

[Ace Rothstein]

12. How are there 9 Papa John's locations in NYC?

There are probably 10k better options for pizza in NYC.