State officials have fined Michael Jackson $69,000 and told himhe cannot employ 69 workers at his Neverland Ranch because theirworkers' compensation policy expired in January, an officialsaid.
Dean Fryer, spokesman for the California Department ofIndustrial Relations, said the agency had issued a stop orderpreventing the use of any employee labor “until they have obtainedworkers' compensation insurance.”
He said the policy lapsed Jan. 10, and the department had becomeinvolved because many of the ranch employees had contacted DIRcomplaining about unpaid wages that had not been forthcoming comesince December.
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