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Comment: Ensuring Wages For California Restaurant Workers: Utilizing The Self-Help Prejudgment Wage Lien Tool, Rebekah Didlake
Comment: Ensuring Wages For California Restaurant Workers: Utilizing The Self-Help Prejudgment Wage Lien Tool, Rebekah Didlake
Golden Gate University Law Review
Wage theft runs especially rampant in California’s restaurant industry and these workers are highly susceptible to worthless wage judgments. Some estimates found restaurant workers account for up to 10% of wage claims filed with the Labor Commissioner each year.
Although wage theft is a nationwide epidemic crossing various industries, this Comment explores the wage theft crisis in the context of low-wage restaurant workers and the obstacles they face when recovering unpaid wages. This Comment argues that a self-help prejudgment wage lien tool is an ideal solution to ensure restaurant workers can collect unpaid wages.