{"id":184428,"date":"2014-11-10T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=184428"},"modified":"2014-11-10T04:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T18:00:45","slug":"labor-violations-found-2-samoa-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/labor-violations-found-2-samoa-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor violations found at 2 A. Samoa stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Samoa-based Ocean Star Enterprises Inc., doing business as Pacific Mini Mart in Tafuna and as Ocean Star Enterprise Inc. in Nu\u2019uuli, has agreed to pay $23,922 in back wages to seven employees following an investigation by the Wage and Hour Division. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators found that the employer paid a fixed salary to several employees without regard to the number of weekly hours actually worked. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe payment of a guaranteed salary to front-line convenience store employees does not waive their entitlement to a base retail sector minimum wage of $4.60 per hour and overtime premium pay for hours worked after 40 in a workweek,\u201d said Terence Trotter, the division\u2019s district director in Hawaii. <strong>(USDOL)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Samoa-based Ocean Star Enterprises Inc., doing business as Pacific Mini Mart in Tafuna and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,1068,1070],"class_list":["post-184428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-business-3","tag-hour-division","tag-terence-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}