Somos Un Pueblo Unido, an organization the Olivases are part of, plans to use the couple’s wage theft claim and victory as a template for how to get others to speak up. “A lot of people don’t speak out because of that.”ĭWS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why the department did not previously accept wage claims of more than $10,000. “As a worker, you’re always in fear of retaliation,” Jose Olivas told the Journal. Jose Olivas said he and his wife continued to push the department to investigate their claim because, in many cases, workers don’t speak up when wage theft takes place in the workplace.
After the Olivases resubmitted their claim with DWS that same year, the department agreed to take on their claim and investigate it. assistance service connected disability benefits and eliminate provided to. It resulted in a settlement agreement in 2018. investments and portation feasibility studies for southern New Mexico job. Because of that policy, Jose Olivas, Somos Un Pueblo Unido, and several other individuals and workers’ rights organizations filed a class action lawsuit against DWS in 2017. Join us Thursday, March 25th, 2021 from 9 am to 10 pm at this virtual Town Hall event as we discuss education and employment resources. The couple took their claim to the Department of Workforce Solutions’ Labor Relations Division, but were initially denied due to a previous internal policy that did not allow the department to take on wage claims exceeding $10,000, according to the court order. “I think this ruling, and the work that DWS did in investigating this case and taking it to trial, is really a wake-up call for employers,” Somos Un Pueblo Unido attorney Gabriela Ibañez Guzmán told the Journal.
Part of that payment includes nearly $62,000 due to an enforcement rule in the state’s Minimum Wage Act.Īt a Wednesday news conference about the ruling at the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solution’s Gallup office, Somos Un Pueblo Unido, a workers’ rights organization, announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at getting workers in the state to speak up on wage theft. Aragon ordered The 505 Burgers Farmington LLC and Morgan Newsom to pay $116,534 in back wages, interest and penalties to the couple, Jose and Sandra Olivas, following a legal battle that spanned more than two years. A Gallup couple claimed a major legal victory this month after a judge ordered their former employer to pay them more than $116,000 in damages in connection with unpaid wages.Įleventh Judicial District Judge Robert A.
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