WASHINGTON • The United States Department of Labor has filed a civil complaint in federal court against the managing director of a technology company filed based in Chesterfield, allegedly violated federal laws on employment in the way he treats a former employee domestic.
The complaint against Himanshu Bhatia, CEO of Rose International, the last month in federal court in California.
It is alleged that Sheela Bhatia Ningwal $ 400 per month paid work 15.5 hours per day, seven days a week; Bhatia times forced a Ningwal problem with dogs in order in a garage is not sleeping infect the Bhatia house; Ningwal was not provided with enough food to eat, if the family is not present; Bhatia and fired Ningwal after taking the laws of the research work in a family team.
Through a public relations firm based in Florida, Bhatia, who lives in San Luis Capistrano, Calif., Has returned all allegations. The public relations firm issued a statement Bhatia daughter of the CEO describes as a caring woman who can not understand why his former employee made the allegations.
Bhatia has not yet responded to the combination even after Susan Seletsky, the attorney for the Los Angeles office of the Ministry of Labour lawyer who filed the lawsuit that Bhatia has violated several articles of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The lawsuit asks for unpaid wages and compensatory and punitive damages. Seletsky said Ningwal a place "silent" was and unavailable for comment.
The Labor Department says Bhatia Ningwal has - Seletsky that he said from India was, - the passport is required to access only when she went to one of the houses Bhatia to work for the defendant.
"In our experience, usually a sign of a victim of trafficking," Seletsky Post-Dispatch said.
The Appeal Division Laboratory argues that "the requirement that women Ningwal sleep with Bhatia on the garage floor Dogs defendant if it causes illness, food deprivation, and denunciations woman Ningwal to live in and to work, bondage, without the workers their rights to understand or the ability to adequately enforce their rights. "
The lawsuit claimed that Bhatia Ningwal fired once before and never again and fired again after discovering that she was doing research in the field of labor law.
In response to a request for comment on the complaint made a public relations agency based in Tampa, a statement of Sabina Bhatia available Rose CEO daughter.
She calls the allegations "complete fiction" and "baseless and false."
"There is a song or even a grain of truth in the claims of Sheela," the statement of bed Sabina Bhatia
"I surprised can, sad and betrayed my mother Sheela Ningwal say these things that are completely wrong not say," he continues. "My mother and father - really everyone - .. Sheela like family they treated us eat and socialize with us There are many pictures and videos of this memory even cooked my mother and took care of her when she was sick." ,
"To Sheela say this because it is completely wrong, terrible and harmful to the United States Department of Labor things, and the government beyond words. People Sheela should not be allowed to handle a system that was designed to the real victims. "
Rose International is a private enterprise, by Bhatia and her husband, Gulab, at his home in Chesterfield in 1993rd
Rose will "workers of the nation one of the leading suppliers of minority and women-owned solutions and technology" called and his motto is: "People make it possible."
After the St. Louis Business Journal, the company last year had $ 318 million in sales. Website Rose says that there are about 6,000 employees and operates in 50 countries and lists among its clients in a wide range of industries, from entertainment to health care, as well as several federal agencies and the Department of Defense and government agencies.
Its customers include state departments agency Missouri Health and Senior Services, social services and mental health; and the Departments of Children and Families Illinois and public health.
Chesterfield addition to its location, the company also has more than a dozen domestic offices, including Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Jefferson City and Denver and New Delhi, India, according to its website.
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