She worked at Subway for more than a decade-then found out her boss had been breaking labor laws the whole time

Eva Rodriguez, a Subway employee in Los Angeles, seeks nearly $100,000 in back pay after alleging severe labor law violations by her employer. Working long hours for minimum wage, she recently learned about her rights and filed a complaint against franchise owner Amarjit Singh for issues including wage theft, lack of sick pay, and tip skimming. Advocates highlight that such wage theft is widespread in low-wage sectors, especially among immigrant workers, markedly increasing over the past decade in California.

Rodriguez claims her boss forced her to work under two names to avoid paying overtime rates, denied her sick pay, skimmed her tips.

In 2023, more than 1.5 million low-wage workers in California were victims of minimum wage violations, more than double the figure of just a decade earlier.

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