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A Papa Johns franchisee received a jail sentence after being charged earlier this year with not paying workers minimum wage and with falsifying documents.
Abdul Jamil Khokhar, who owns nine Papa Johns locations in New York City with BMY Foods, pled guilty to failing to pay workers in compliance with the New York Labor Law, which is a misdemeanor, and to filing false business records, a felony.
As its stated on the Attorney Generals website, instead of paying his employees the proper minimum overtime wages according to New York State law, Khokhar paid them the same minimum wage they would make during regular hours. To hide this illegal practice, he created fake identities under which the employees would file their overtime hours to make it look as if they were distributed among more workers. As was previously reported by Fortune, this affected the wages of over 300 current and former employees.
A civil settlement secured by the U.S. Department of Labor in July of this year required Khokhar to pay $230,000 in damages and $50,000 in civil monetary penalties. He must also pay an additional $230,000 in back pay and spend 60 days in jail, as was agreed upon during his sentencing as part of his plea deal.
http://fortune.com/2015/11/16/papa-johns-franchisee-jail/?xid=yahoo_fortune
Remember, think twice before you eat crappy Republican pizza.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)How could he possibly think he could do that to over 300 people and still get away with it?
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,853 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)We have a local home owned pizza parlor where we get our pizza fix from. I'll put it up against any of the franchises too
Oh btw Peyton sucks as does his sidekick
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)meow2u3
(24,767 posts)Especially since I live across the street from a mom-and-pop pizza parlor and within less than a mile of another.
gvstn
(2,805 posts)Just not enough sauce or toppings. I like New York style, thin crust and go from there.
Don't really have a great pizza parlor around me now, the one that does do a NY style always has a dirty oven that leaves black/burnt marks on the bottom of the crust. Don't like that!
gollygee
(22,336 posts)There's no way.
Edit: This is an example of why we don't have a libertarian governmental style. We NEED a dept. of labor, and all the others too. There are plenty of people who think it's all governmental waste.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Leave Peyton alone! I'm very happy with his recent performance.
flying rabbit
(4,636 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,686 posts)K&R!
OS
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Overseas
(12,121 posts)mountain grammy
(26,642 posts)and glad he's going to jail. No pizza for him for a while.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Never go there or Dumbinos.
NBachers
(17,133 posts)They'd make us punch out and keep working. They'd also make us deposit all our money in big cans and let them count it at the end of the night. It's surprising how many times we came up significantly short, and had to make up the difference out of our own pockets.
Pigs
Cha
(297,474 posts)prouddemfromaustin44
(52 posts)I've never went there for 5 years now, and don't intend to in the future. Even their "deals" are a ripoff IMO.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)is that stealing from your employees is a misdemeanor while filing false paperwork is a felony.
Not surprising I suppose, but still very sad.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Poor guy had four interceptions and a QB rating of zero on Sunday.