A once-thriving cannabis and hemp company in Half Moon Bay is now being investigated by state and local authorities for possibly cheating it’s farmworker labor force out of two months of pay.
The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office is coordinating an all-out investigation involving many agencies aimed at this Half Moon Bay company after workers complained they had not been paid for eight weeks -- including through the holidays.
The Castillo Seed Company farm in Half Moon Bay is currently shut down as state and local investigators go through records on how it ran its business and treated workers.
The company website says the company has been in the cannabis and hemp business for decades, but according to many farmworkers who used to work there, Castillo Seed said business had declined badly during the pandemic and told them they wouldn’t be paid the last weeks of December into the New Year. But that stretched into eight weeks of work with no pay.
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