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3 workers sue ex-employer for issuing bad checks
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Posted on Nov 14 2004
Three workers who earlier filed federal labor complaints against their former employer filed a lawsuit against the company before the Superior Court.
Wu Xian Zhong, Xu Qing Xian, and Chen Kun Tai said checks issued to them by New Saipan Development Inc. bounced and were never paid despite demand.
The checks issued were for payment of wages, said the workers’ lawyer, S. Joshua Berger, in a civil complaint filed sometime last week.
Berger said the company issued a $3,000-check to Wu on Feb. 9, 1999. The company issued two checks to Chen in the amounts of $320.42 and $2,282.24, and two checks with the amounts of $$2,932.24 and $1,471.91 to Xu, he added.
“Bad check letters were issued to [the company] forewarning it of the consequences if not paying pursuant to the requirements of the CNMI Bad Check Act of 1984,” Berger said.
The lawyer said the company failed and refused to pay the amounts indicated in the bounced checks despite being sent demand letters.
Berger asked the court to compel the company to pay the workers the amounts indicated in the checks, besides interests and costs incidental to the lawsuit.
The workers had filed federal labor complaints against the company for alleged nonpayment of overtime, he added.
