According to a Department of Labor report, a northern Californian restaurant called Taqueria Garibaldi offered a priest to hear confessions from employees.

An employee said,

The priest urged workers to ‘get the sins out,' and asked employees if they had stolen from the employer, been late for work, had done anything to harm their employer, or if they had bad intentions toward their employer.

Sounds like something a priest would ask during confession.

I wonder what the penance would be for those?

Oddly enough, the complaint about the fake priest uncovered some other not-so-funny goings on at the restaurant.

The owner of the restaurant was also making the employees work unpaid overtime, "paid managers from the employee tip pool illegally, threatened employees with retaliation and adverse immigration consequences for cooperating with the department, and fired one worker who they believed had complained to the department."

A court ordered the owner to pay the employees $140,000 in back wages and liquidated damages and to pay the labor department $5,000 in civil penalties for willful disobedience of statutes.

The fine for hiring a fake priest to hear confessions of employees' workplace sins?

$0

Yeah, that's just dumb, not illegal.