San Francisco Burger King owners ordered to pay $2.2 million in fines – By Nico Madrigal-Yankowski (SFGATE) / Jan 13, 2023
The state of California Labor Commissioner’s Office has fined two San Francisco Burger King franchise owners $2.2 million in wage theft citations, which is to be paid out to 230 former employees.
This decision comes after Golden Gate Restaurant Group’s Monu Singh and Harkiran Randhawa lost an appeal of the $1.9 million fine issued in June of 2020 by the Labor Commissioner’s Office. The citation is now set at $2.2 million, which includes accrued interest.
The case originally started in 2019 when a group of Burger King employees at the infamous 1200 Market St. location, in downtown San Francisco, “basically walked off the job,” according to Alexx Campbell, a senior staff attorney at nonprofit law office Legal Aid at Work. Campbell has worked on this case since the beginning.
Through their lawyer, Colin Calvert of law firm Fisher Phillips, Singh and Randhawa denied any wrongdoing in an email to SFGATE.
