{"id":53579,"date":"2000-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/963aef78-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-09-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-09-14T00:00:00","slug":"963aef89-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/963aef89-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest worker sues employer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladeshi national has sued his employer in the U.S. District Court for alleged nonpayment of wages and breach of contract in violation of federal labor laws.<\/p>\n<p>Jahir, through attorney Jay H. Sorensen, filed the civil complaint against businessman George L. Teregeyo, owner of Vicky&#8217;s Apartment.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, while working for the building maintenance since March 1997, the defendant has &#8220;failed, refused, and neglected&#8221; to pay him all of the wages due at minimum wage rate as well as overtime pay.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jahir is now demanding compensation, including the unpaid wages and liquidating wages of the same amount as well as attorney fees and litigation costs.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint was brought to the federal court in violation of the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act, the Minimum Wage and Hour Act and the CNMI Nonresident Workers Act.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant, who could not be reached for comment, has within 20 days to respond to the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladeshi national has sued his employer in the U.S. District Court for alleged nonpayment of wages and breach of contract in violation of federal labor laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53579","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}