$584,000 Settlement in FLSA Case
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Friday, August 11, 2017 |
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An enterprise operating six limited-service restaurants with pizza delivery in Massachusetts has paid $292,016 in back wages and an equal amount in damages for 73 employees. It has also amended its payroll practices to comply with federal Fair Labor Standards Act requirements in an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor.
Investigators in the Department’s Wage and Hour Division found that Tavco Chandler Street Inc. and five associated companies – all doing business as Golden Pizza – failed to comply with the FLSA’s overtime and recordkeeping requirements between July 1, 2013 and July 31, 2016. The company failed to record all the hours employees had worked, and failed to pay them overtime at time-and-one-half when they worked more than 40 hours in a week. The Division found the recent violations to be willful, as the company was previously investigated twice in 2011.
The Division has received the back wages and is in the process of distributing them to the employees. In the consent judgment, Golden Pizza neither admits nor denies the findings of the Division’s investigation.
The Department’s complaint was filed on May 12, 2017. The consent judgment was signed by Chief Magistrate David H. Hennessy of the U.S. District Court for the district of Massachusetts on June 20, 2017. Acosta v. Tavco Auburn St., Inc. et al, CA No. 4:17-CV-40070.
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