State officials have fined Michael Jackson $69,000 and told him he cannot employ 69 workers at his Neverland Ranch because their workers' compensation policy expired in January, an official said.
Dean Fryer, spokesman for the California Department of Industrial Relations, said the agency had issued a stop order preventing the use of any employee labor “until they have obtained workers' compensation insurance.”
He said the policy lapsed Jan. 10, and the department had become involved because many of the ranch employees had contacted DIR complaining about unpaid wages that had not been forthcoming come since December.
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