{"id":75924,"date":"2016-05-14T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T13:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=75924"},"modified":"2016-05-14T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T13:01:39","slug":"filipino-bakery-workers-win-15-million-trafficking-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/14\/filipino-bakery-workers-win-15-million-trafficking-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino bakery workers win $15 million in trafficking suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75925\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1513685_824549924254118_3457823916422321949_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75925\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1513685_824549924254118_3457823916422321949_n.jpg\" alt=\"L'Amande French Bakery. (Facebook photo)\" width=\"504\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1513685_824549924254118_3457823916422321949_n.jpg 504w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1513685_824549924254118_3457823916422321949_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1513685_824549924254118_3457823916422321949_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L&#8217;Amande French Bakery. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lamandefrenchbakery\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Eleven Filipino bakery workers say they won $15 million in damages in a human trafficking lawsuit against a couple who they said forced them to do housework after arriving in the United States and paid them a meagre wages.<\/p>\n<p>Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles said Friday that a federal judge in Los Angeles granted the judgment on behalf of the workers last week.<\/p>\n<p>The workers were brought to the U.S. on visas to work at L&#8217;Amande French Bakery or to work as nannies. Once here, they said bakery owners Analiza and Goncalo Moitinho de Almeida had them work at least 13 hours a day for scant pay.<\/p>\n<p>Some workers who complained said they were fired.<\/p>\n<p>A message seeking comment was left for the bakery owners&#8217; lawyer, Joshua Kimura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Eleven Filipino bakery workers say they won $15 million in damages in a human trafficking lawsuit against a couple &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[385,10726,2822,3279,10727,1757,4696],"class_list":["post-75924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-california","tag-filipino-workers","tag-filipinos","tag-human-trafficking","tag-lamande-french-bakery","tag-los-angeles","tag-ofws","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75924","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}