GPPC Inc. has agreed to pay $115,619 in minimum wage and overtime back wages to 209 workers on Saipan after the Wage and Hour Division found the Northern Mariana Islands-based general construction company in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. <\/p>\n
GPPC failed to pay at least a minimum wage of $5.55 per hour and proper overtime premium from Feb. 18, 2012, through Oct. 17, 2013. Workers were deducted 30 minutes from their scheduled shift without actually taking a continuous break for that time. The company mistakenly believed that a small rest period of 15 minutes in the morning and in the afternoon could be deducted from an employee’s daily hours of work. A balance of $4,432 remains unpaid to 13 unallocated workers. <\/p>\n
Workers who have not been paid can call (670) 233-0740 for information on how to receive their back wage payment, even if they have already returned to their country of origin. (U.S. Labor)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GPPC Inc. has agreed to pay $115,619 in minimum wage and overtime back wages to…<\/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":[263,823],"class_list":["post-32323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-gppc","tag-northern-mariana-islands-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32323","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=32323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}