Monday, July 12, 2010

WhistleblowersBlog: Workers blow whistle on Moe Hamdan's wage theft

Moe Hamdan owns the upscale Washington restaurant called The Reserve on L St. NW.  Instead of using the restaurant's income to pay the workers' wages, he used it for his own lavish lifestyle. Some workers went six months without being paid what they are owed.  "I worked really hard as a bar boy at this restaurant," says former Reserve employee Luis Ducas, "and the owner refuses to pay me my back wages." D.C. Jobs with Justice's Arturo Griffiths says Hamdan owes workers over $25,000 in unpaid wages. Hamdan "has no intentions of paying his workers or even meeting with them" a former manager told Boaz Young-El, an AFL-CIO Union Summer intern. "He is…

 

http://www.whistleblowersblog.org/2010/07/articles/corporate-1/workers-blow-whistle-on-moe-hamdans-wage-theft/

 

1 comment:

  1. The above article is untrue and the summer intern that wrote it has no journalistic integrity. If they or the non profit organization would have taken the time to do some research they would have found that the employees who they claim did not get paid wages, were in fact paid and there are records to prove it. The other employees that made false accusations were terminated for either theft, damage to property, or drinking while on duty. It is things like this matter that discredit organizations like this when they try to fight for a good cause. Take the time to do some research before you comment on issues like this. Lets try to practice journalistic integrity before making false accusations.

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