Accommodation & Food Services · El Paso, TX
Cafe La Malinche
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010–2026), the Wage and Hour Division recovered $22,702 in back wages owed to 19 affected workers across 2 wage-theft cases.
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- OSHA penalties
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- Violations cited
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- OSHA inspections
- $22,702
- Back wages owed
Cafe La Malinche in El Paso, TX has been the subject of 0 OSHA workplace inspections and 0 citations since 2010, according to enforcement records from the U.S. Department of Labor. Federal wage-and-hour enforcement records also show 27 WHD violations against this employer under the Fair Labor Standards Act. All enforcement data below is sourced from the DOL public enforcement databases at data.dol.gov.
Compliance score
- C Wage & hour compliance: $23K in back wages owed across 2 WHD cases ($11K per case), vs. national p10 $2K (best) / p90 $58K (worst) among 91,622 employers with a WHD case on file.
Channels are separate federal datasets: a dimension marked not applicable simply has no record in that dataset for this employer, not a good or bad score.
Cafe La Malinche in the Accommodation & Food Services enforcement ledger
WHD back-wage recoveries in this sector place Cafe La Malinche at rank #5,278 of 22,851 employers ($22,702 owed). Cafe La Malinche carries no OSHA penalty in this extract but ranks #5,278 of 22,851 Accommodation & Food Services employers on WHD back wages ($22,702).
How Cafe La Malinche Compares
Cafe La Malinche in El Paso, TX has no OSHA inspection on record with PlainWorker. An absence of federal inspection activity is not the same as a clean safety record, it typically means this employer has not yet been selected for inspection under OSHA's targeting programs. By comparison, Back Street Bar and Grill in Hudson, NH has 0 OSHA inspections on record.
No OSHA penalty has been assessed against Cafe La Malinche to date. The Accommodation & Food Services sector average runs $670 per employer.
Wage & Hour Findings
The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that Cafe La Malinche owed $22,702 in back wages to 19 employees across 2 cases and 27 violations. WHD enforces federal labor laws including the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), covering minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor standards.
Industry Safety Context: Accommodation & Food Services
How Cafe La Malinche compares to the Accommodation & Food Services sector, which has 25,016 employers tracked by PlainWorker.
| Metric | Cafe La Malinche | Industry Avg |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections | 0 | 0.2 |
| Violations | 0 | 0.5 |
| Total Penalty | $0 | $670 |
| Avg Penalty per Inspection | $0 | $2,941 |
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What to do with this record
Use Cafe La Malinche's enforcement history as one data point, not the whole picture.
- A single employer's record can look unusual in isolation. Compare Cafe La Malinche against Mission Grill, a similarly-sized employer in the same sector, before drawing conclusions. Compare side-by-side
- See whether Cafe La Malinche's inspection and penalty record is typical for Accommodation & Food Services or an outlier against the sector's own average. View the Accommodation & Food Services sector
- Cafe La Malinche also carries $22,702 in Wage and Hour Division back-wages, a separate enforcement track from OSHA safety violations. How wage-theft enforcement works
Figures reflect closed OSHA and WHD federal enforcement actions on record (2010–2026); not every workplace issue results in an inspection or investigation.
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Data Sources & Methodology ▼
Data as of 2026. Source: U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA, WHD).
Source: OSHA Enforcement Data
Inspection and violation records from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor, covering the period 2010–2026. Includes inspection dates, violation types (serious, willful, repeat, other-than-serious), and penalty amounts. Penalties shown are current assessed amounts and may differ from original citations due to settlement, contest, or reduction.
Source: Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Compliance actions from the WHD, covering enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), including minimum wage, overtime, and child labor violations. Back wages represent amounts owed to affected employees as determined by WHD investigations.
Employer Matching
Employers are matched across OSHA and WHD datasets by name, state, and city. Employers included in PlainWorker have 2 or more OSHA inspections or $1,000+ in WHD back wages. Data is updated monthly from data.dol.gov.