加州一面包店員工起訴公司索賠百萬

    食品伙伴網(wǎng)訊    據(jù)外媒報道，3月18日多名菲利賓籍工人將托倫斯市一家面包坊告上洛杉磯高等法院（Los Angeles Superior Court），起訴該面包坊每天讓他們苦干至少13小時，但付給他們的報酬卻極其微薄。

    該面包坊現(xiàn)員工一起要求索賠100萬美元。這些工人說，他們是從2009年至2014年間，以外國投資者的雇員簽證來美的。

    部分原文報道如下：

    LOS ANGELES - Filipino workers brought to this country by the husband-and-wife owners of a bakery have sued the business and the couple, claiming they were forced to do laundry and yard work, received meager wages and told they would have to pay off a hefty debt if they tried to leave. 11The current and former workers filed the labor-trafficking lawsuit Wednesday against L'Amande French Bakery in Los Angeles Superior Court.

    They demanded more than $1 million in back and overtime pay and damages.The 11 workers, who were brought to the U.S. on visas between 2009 and 2014, were told they would have jobs in the bakery or as a nanny. But once they arrived in California, they had to clean and paint an apartment complex and do laundry and yard work for bakery owners Analiza and Goncalo Moitinho de Almeida, the lawsuit states.

    原文鏈接：<http://www.fresnobee.com/2015/03/19/4435253/filipino-workers-sue-bakery-alleging.html>