{"id":353022,"date":"2021-10-06T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=353022"},"modified":"2021-10-06T06:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:05:25","slug":"saipan-wholesaler-found-in-violation-of-minimum-wage-and-overtime-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-wholesaler-found-in-violation-of-minimum-wage-and-overtime-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan wholesaler found in violation  of minimum wage and overtime rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; <strong>USDOL recovers $21K in back wages for workers<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>Pearl River Wholesale also pays damages, penalties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Saipan dry food, spice and canned food wholesaler, Pearl River Wholesale, paid four workers a fixed, \u201coff-the-books\u201d cash salary that dropped their regular hourly wage below the required federal $7.25 minimum wage rate, and denied them overtime when they worked more than 40 hours in a workweek, a federal investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Wage and Hour Division recovered $21,093 in back wages and liquidated damages for four workers at Pearl River Wholesale. The division also assessed the employer $2,324 in civil penalties for its reckless disregard for the Fair Labor Standards Act requirements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployers who shortchange workers by denying them all of the wages they\u2019ve legally earned will be held accountable by the U.S. Department of Labor,\u201d said Wage and Hour District director Terence Trotter in Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0 \u201cPearl River Wholesale attempted to exploit workers by making side agreements to skirt the law and cheat their competitors by paying substandard wages. In the end, they have paid not only the wages due, but thousands of dollars in penalties for their willful disregard of the law.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the\u00a0FLSA\u00a0and other laws enforced by the division, contact its toll-free helpline at 866-4US-WAGE (487-9243). <em>(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; USDOL recovers $21K in back wages for workers &#8211; Pearl River Wholesale also pays&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":353057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8220],"class_list":["post-353022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-usdol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353022","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=353022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}