Last November, a few weeks after the U.S. Department of Labor had notified owners of Taqueria Garibaldi restaurants in the Sacramento area that it had evidence of overtime and record-keeping violations, one of the chain’s owners showed up at the Howe Avenue eatery with a priest, the government says.
Eduardo Hernandez and the priest walked in during the afternoon shift and asked workers if they wanted to take time out of their day to take confession, according to Labor Department officials.
“Eduardo said a priest would be there to help with mental health,” Maria Parra, a shift leader at the eatery, recalled in a sworn declaration. “I decided to talk to the priest, but as soon as the confession started I found the conversation to be strange and unlike normal confessions, where I would tell a priest about the sins I wanted to confess.”
