A Northern California taqueria under investigation for wage theft brought in a priest to get workers to "confess" about sins they had committed in the workplace, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Taqueria Garibaldi in Sacramento was already under investigation by the Wage and Hour Department when its owner, Eduardo Hernandez, offered the services of the priest to employees in November 2021 — only for the restaurant's Catholic workers to describe the experience as unlike any confession they'd ever experienced before.
"I found the conversation to be strange and unlike normal confessions," said Maria Parra, who worked as a server at Taqueria Garibaldi.
