{"id":38207,"date":"2014-06-09T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=38207"},"modified":"2014-06-09T04:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T18:00:57","slug":"two-water-sports-firms-pay-46k-back-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/two-water-sports-firms-pay-46k-back-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Two water sports firms to pay $46K back wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Saipan-based marine sport activity companies owned and operated by Toru Narita have agreed to pay $46,065 in back wages to 15 employees for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act\u2019s minimum wage and overtime provisions. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators from the Wage and Hour Division found that Aqua Connections Inc. and Hi-Five Co. Ltd. failed to pay employees for all work done at the beginning and end of their shifts. The investigation covered a two-year period beginning in March 2012. One salaried non-managerial employee was not paid an overtime premium for hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll employees that are entitled to an overtime premium must be paid in compliance with the FLSA\u2019s overtime provision regardless of whether they are paid on a salary basis or work beyond their scheduled shift,\u201d said Terence Trotter, the division\u2019s district director in Hawaii. (USDOL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Saipan-based marine sport activity companies owned and operated by Toru Narita have agreed to&#8230;<\/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":[199],"class_list":["post-38207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-sport-2-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207","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=38207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}