Domino's Pizza Owners Admit to Widespread Wage Theft
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/28-2Owners of 23 outlets settle with workers for half a million dollars following waves of fast food workers' strikes, protests, and court battles
Domino's Pizza Owners Admit to Widespread Wage Theft
- Sarah Lazare, staff writer
Published on Friday, March 28, 2014 by Common Dreams
The owners of 23 Domino's Pizza outlets in New York admitted to rampant theft of workers' wages and agreed Thursday to a nearly half a million dollar settlement with hundreds of employees for numerous labor violations.
"Fast food corporations like Dominos and McDonalds cannot hide from their responsibility for these unlawful practices," said Naquasia LeGrand, a Brooklyn KFC employee and member Fast Forward. "Theyre the ones in control of the daily operations of their franchisees."
The settlement was the result of an investigation by State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman into allegations of wage theft. According to a press release from Schneiderman's office, between and 2013, the owners admitted to numerous violations, including: paying below minimum wage, refusing or underpaying overtime pay, and refusing to adequately compensate delivery drivers for their car expenses.
Multiple, nation-wide waves of fast food worker strikes and protests have forced into the national discourse problems of pay theft, "starvation wages," and poor working conditions that are rampant in the fast food industry.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Uben
(7,719 posts)If corporations want to be people, they must be held responsible in like fashion. The CEOs of corporations found guilty of crimes must be incarcerated just like anyone else. Jamie Dimond should be in prison for life. The CEOs of McDonalds and Dominos should also be in prison...for life. When you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. So, fuck these priviledged cretons, and make them suffer SEVERELY for their crimes.
Don't wanna go to jail? Don't try to fuck people out of their money.
LOCK EM UP! TAKE THEIR MONEY! RUIN THEIR LIFE!
Pholus
(4,062 posts)"nearly" $500000 split "hundreds of ways" is perhaps a couple hundred dollars apiece.
Considering the long list of abuses I figure Dominoes probably soaked each employee several times that.
Not sure how much of a "penalty" this was....
paleotn
(17,781 posts)....I saw a commercial last night where Dominoe's said their workers were "pizza artists" and happy artistic people on the side. That wasn't corporate, bullshit propaganda, was it? Surely not.
Lochloosa
(16,019 posts)secondvariety
(1,245 posts)ripped off my daughter for pay when she quit. Her manager, after he was let go by Corporate, admitted to her that cheating teenagers was actually encouraged by the higher ups.
mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)In 1987, our 16 year old son went to work for Dominos. He always had a great work ethic, so we were alarmed when he didn't seem to care about getting to work on time. Then he said, it didn't matter because the employees were scheduled but not allowed to clock in until it was busy.
My husband lost it. He asked our son if he really wanted that job and the kid said, not really. My husband got on the phone and called everyone from the national office to the store manager, then he called the Colorado state Dept of Labor, who investigated (yeah, right!)
Our son kept his job for a couple of months which really pissed off the manager who didn't have the nerve to fire him, but the other employees saw him as some kind of hero because the policy changed. He told the others, this shit is happening because Reagan is president and unions are on the losing end of the stick. Working people get no respect from the Republican party.
VA_Jill
(9,854 posts)another reason not to buy Domino's lousy pizza (which I've been boycotting for years on account of Monaghan's political views)!
niyad
(112,435 posts). . .
In 1989, the National Organization for Women (NOW) called for a boycott of Domino's because of his active opposition to abortion, but it is unclear what effect, if any, that had on the company's sales.[6]
Monaghan sold his controlling stake in Domino's Pizza in 1998 to Bain Capital, an investment firm based in Boston, for an estimated $1 billion.[3] The Domino's Pizza is an American restaurant chain and international franchise pizza delivery corporation is headquartered at the Domino's Farms Office Park (the campus itself being owned by Domino's Pizza co-founder Tom Monaghan[7]) in Ann Arbor Township, Michigan, United States, near Ann Arbor, Michigan.[8][9][10]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Monaghan
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Money talks.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)And if it were the employee stealing the burger and not the burger stealing from the employee.....well, we all know how that would work.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)You hit the nail on the head!