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Labor/Employment

Jan. 31, 2012

Low-wage workers gain new edge in labor cases

Starting this month, in what workers' rights advocates call a major victory, low-income earners can recover twice their lost wages with interest in these proceedings.


By Brian Sumers


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Neidi Dominguez says she has never lost an employment case. And she's not even a lawyer.


Dominguez helps Los Angeles-area car wash workers recover lost earnings when their employers fail to pay them the state-mandated minimum wage, now $8 per hour. She guides low-wage workers who file claims with the state labor commissioner's office, through which they can seek back wages from a hearing offi...

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