{"id":368798,"date":"2022-05-20T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=368798"},"modified":"2022-05-20T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:00:10","slug":"usdol-recovers-17k-for-10-workers-in-guam-o-h-construction-also-assessed-6k-in-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/usdol-recovers-17k-for-10-workers-in-guam-o-h-construction-also-assessed-6k-in-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"USDOL recovers $17K for 10 workers in Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TAMUNING, Guam<\/strong>\u2014A federal investigation has found that a construction company under contract with the Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority disregarded its legal obligation to pay 10 workers the required overtime rate for hours worked over 40 in a work week.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Wage and Hour Division determined that O.H. Construction\u2014owned by Michael Jeon Lee\u2014violated the\u00a0Fair Labor Standards Act.\u00a0The employer also violated minimum wage, payroll and basic records provisions of the\u00a0Davis-Bacon and Related Acts\u00a0by not paying the higher applicable wage to workers in multiple job categories. The company also did not display or make available required DBRA informational resources at the work site, as the law requires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The division recovered $17,640 in back wages and liquidated damages for the affected workers, and assessed $6,170 in civil money penalties for reckless disregard of the act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployers can\u2019t enter into ad-hoc agreements with workers that deny them their lawfully earned overtime wages,\u201d said Wage and Hour Division district director Terence Trotter, in Honolulu. \u201cEmployers should take advantage of the many educational tools we offer in order to avoid costly violations such as those found in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fiscal year 2021, the Wage and Hour Division identified more than $36 million in wages owed to people working in the construction industry.\u00a0<\/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) with questions. Learn 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>TAMUNING, Guam\u2014A federal investigation has found that a construction company under contract with the Guam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":368799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,11482,8220],"class_list":["post-368798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-tamuning","tag-usdol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368798","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=368798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}