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By | | Bay Area News GroupSAN JOSE – A San Jose flooring company owner has been charged with failing to pay nearly $1 million in overtime wages to employees, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said.Martin Helda, 33, is facing 20 felony counts of workers compensation premium fraud, Employment Development Department fraud and wage theft, prosecutors said in a news release Tuesday.Helda’s arraignment has not yet been scheduled.Prosecutors said the investigation began after an insurance audit found Helda’s payroll did not match the number of people he had working for him at All Bay Area Floors.Helda withheld at least $900,000 in overtime wages owed to employees known to the EDD, but possibly as much as $1.7 million owed to all employees including those not known to the EDD, the district attorney’s office said.“Greedy business owners are banking that cheated employees won’t come forward,” said Deputy District Attorney Vonda Tracey in a statement. “These workers did the work. They are owed the pay.”Messages left for Helda at his company on Tuesday and Wednesday were not returned.Prosecutors said they cannot identify many of the workers who could be eligible for compensation because of “scant employee records.” Anyone who worked for the company can contact Investigator Lt. Michael Whittington at 408-808-3742 or mwhittington@dao.sccgov.org.Check back for updates.We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.Get Morning Report and other email newslettersFollow UsMost PopularClose

By | | Bay Area News GroupSAN JOSE – A San Jose flooring company owner has been charged with failing to pay nearly $1 million in overtime wages to employees, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said.Martin Helda, 33, is facing 20 felony counts of workers compensation premium fraud, Employment Development Department fraud and wage theft, prosecutors said in a news release Tuesday.Helda’s arraignment has not yet been scheduled.Prosecutors said the investigation began after an insurance audit found Helda’s payroll did not match the number of people he had working for him at All...

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