{"id":34827,"date":"2014-05-12T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=34827"},"modified":"2014-05-12T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T14:21:00","slug":"samoa-phone-provider-pay-ot-back-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/samoa-phone-provider-pay-ot-back-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"A. Samoa phone  provider to pay  OT back wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation by the Wage and Hour Division found that the American Samoa Telecommunication Authority failed to pay $26,836 in overtime to 36 workers employed in Tafuna and other remote offices for a period of two years beginning in Feb. 7, 2012. ASTCA also failed to pay 62 workers for an additional 10,031 overtime hours. These hours will be added to the employees\u2019 comp-time leave accounts for their future use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to work with representatives from the American Samoa government to improve their understanding of federal labor laws while addressing any deficiencies in the manner in which overtime is accrued and paid,\u201d said Terence Trotter, the division\u2019s district director in Hawaii. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation by the Wage and Hour Division found that the American Samoa Telecommunication Authority&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[167,485],"class_list":["post-34827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-samoa","tag-ot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34827","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}