The LA County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance to enforce new minimum wage laws

While the minimum wage progressively will rise up to $15 including the city of Los Angeles and LA County, LA County Board of Supervisors designated the Department of Consumer and Business Affairs as the agency responsible for enforcing the county’s new minimum wage.

LA　County will allow workers to report in cases where they do not get paid and get damaged by employers that violate labor laws. Employers will be penalized with thousands of dollars for one case of violation when they are found to violate the laws.

The LA County Supervisor Committee voted 4-1 to pass this ordinance last 26th.

This ordinance includes contents that designate new department to enforce the new minimum wage and to prevent wage theft, unpaid minimum wage, refusal to pay overtime, not providing break time, paying with cash, and violation of worker’s contract.

The LA County also included new regulations on imposing fines. Employers will be imposed $100 of fine each day that they do not pay wages for workers and $500 for not displaying minimum wage laws and not making records of paying.

In order to prevent the retaliation discharges, $1,000 of fine will be imposed per worker and $100 per day until the workers find a new job with $1,000 of reparation.

LA County will increase up to 50% of fine when these violations are caught more than twice.

 <Cheol-Soo Kim — The Korea Times Staff Reporter>