Store employees worked on lunch hour without pay

K.S. Mart, a grocery-department store retailer in Tafuna, American Samoa, agreed to pay $85,179 to 87 employees for violations of the minimum wage and overtime provisions under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Wage and Hour Division investigators found that hourly employees worked through lunch without compensation. They also determined that 11 salaried workers were entitled to overtime pay but did not receive it.

“In accordance with the FLSA, hours worked must be properly counted and paid. Salaried employees are also entitled to overtime pay unless they are guaranteed at least $380 per week and have certain job duties and primary responsibilities that would lawfully exclude them from the wage requirements of the Act,” said Wage and Hour District Director Terry Trotter. (USDOL)