{"id":361340,"date":"2022-02-04T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=361340"},"modified":"2022-02-04T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:00:34","slug":"usdol-recovers-23000-in-back-wages-for-8-workers-in-pago-pago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/usdol-recovers-23000-in-back-wages-for-8-workers-in-pago-pago\/","title":{"rendered":"USDOL recovers $23,000 in back wages for 8 workers in Pago Pago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PAGO PAGO, American Samoa<\/strong>\u2014A federal investigation recovered $23,358 in back wages for eight employees of a Pago Pago employer who failed to pay eight workers for work performed before and after their scheduled shifts. The employer required the work but failed to record the time and pay for the hours. Additionally, the employer illegally deducted meal breaks and lodging costs from worker\u2019s pay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s\u00a0Wage and Hour Division\u00a0found Solid Corp.\u2014an enterprise consisting of Worldwide Cash Station, Worldwide Car Rental and Worldwide Tours &amp; Travel Inc.\u2014violated the\u00a0Fair Labor Standards Act\u00a0when it failed to pay for all hours of work and for made improper deductions. The division also determined the employer did not combine hours worked across multiple locations and failed to keep accurate records. The failure to count hours worked before and after shifts and to combine hours worked at multiple locations resulted in overtime violations when employees worked more than 40 hours per week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSolid Corp. failed to record, count and pay workers for all their time they worked and shortchanged them of their lawfully earned wages,\u201d said Wage and Hour Division district director Terence Trotter in Honolulu. \u201cThe employer also did not combine all hours worked by staff at their various locations throughout the workweek for overtime purposes.\u00a0We encourage all employers to review their pay practices and to contact us for information about how to avoid violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wage and Hour Division is committed to protecting and enhancing the welfare of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In fiscal year 2021, the division helped more than 190,000 workers and recovered more than $230 million in total back wages.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the FLSA\u00a0and other laws enforced by the division, contact the agency\u2019s toll-free helpline at 866-4US-WAGE (487-9243).\u00a0Learn more about the\u00a0Wage and Hour Division, including a\u00a0search tool\u00a0to use if you think you may be owed back wages collected by the division. Workers can call the Wage and Hour Division confidentially with questions\u2014regardless of their immigration status\u2014and the department can speak with callers in more than 200 languages. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAGO PAGO, American Samoa\u2014A federal investigation recovered $23,358 in back wages for eight employees of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":361342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[167,5841,8220],"class_list":["post-361340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-samoa","tag-pago-pago","tag-usdol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361340","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=361340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}