A. Oseguera Company Inc. faces potential debarment for future labor violations
SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment that orders a Salinas labor contractor – who withheld final paychecks and transportation expenses – to hundreds of farmworkers to pay more than $460,000 in damages and penalties, following the department’s investigation and litigation.
The action by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California requires A. Oseguera Company Inc. and owners Antonio Oseguera and Hilda Oseguera Garibay to pay $410,606 in liquidated damages and $41,351 in travel and subsistence costs to 542 affected workers. Payment must be made within 150 days.
The court also affirmed the department’s assessment of $8,541 in civil money penalties for their violations.
This consent judgment follows the recovery of $977,590 in wages by the department’s Wage and Hour Division from the company and its owners in December 2021. The affected workers are U.S. workers and workers hired under the H-2A temporary agricultural program.
Division investigators determined the employers’ missed payroll led to violations of the minimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and violations of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act and the H-2A temporary agricultural program under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The A. Oseguera Company and its owners violated federal law by failing to:
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