Construction workers receive $1.1M payout in wage theft case

More than 100 construction workers who helped build Browning High School in Long Beach received an average of about $7,200 in restitution in a settlement of a wage theft case against an Orange County subcontractor that was founded to have cheated on employees and kept false pay records.
California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su found that a total of 103 workers weren’t paid prevailing wage and fringe benefits by their employer, Newport Beach-based Champion Construction, Inc., a drywal