{"id":26612,"date":"2014-09-22T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T03:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=26612"},"modified":"2014-09-22T18:30:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T10:30:29","slug":"pinoy-care-homeowners-under-arrest-for-wage-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/22\/pinoy-care-homeowners-under-arrest-for-wage-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinoy care homeowners under arrest for wage theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9197\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fraud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9197\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fraud-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fraud-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fraud-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/fraud.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; \u00a0A Filipino care homeowner was arrested on Tuesday because of wage theft and fraud in California.<\/p>\n<p>Florinda Yambao, owner of Floran White Dove Care Homes in Brentwood, did not pay the company\u2019s employees who worked 12 to 16-hour days.<\/p>\n<p>Based on investigation, Yambao owes them almost half a million dollars\u2019 worth of compensation. The employees were only paid $50 to $80 a day.<\/p>\n<p>There are 14 full time employeer and several part-time workers under Yambao \u2013 all are Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>The owners of Abraham Rest Homes Inc. and Sanchez Abraham Corporation were also taken into police custody for wage theft.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, the defendants owe $2 million to their 60 employees.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the deputy district attorney said that they already released a search warrant for Filipino couple Glenda and Rommel Publico who owns Scienn Hall Care Homes that also employ Filipino caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>The Publicos are also believed to be violating labor laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; \u00a0A Filipino care homeowner was arrested on Tuesday because of wage theft and fraud in California. Florinda Yambao, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7921,817],"class_list":["post-26612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-filipina-worker","tag-fraud","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}