NEW YORK – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York has entered a consent judgment ordering a Syracuse gas station and convenience store and a Jamesville pizzeria and convenience store and their owner to pay $56,364 in back wages and an equal amount of $56,364 in liquidated damages to 12 employees denied overtime wages.
The court’s action follows an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division and litigation by its Office of the Solicitor that concluded Liberty Gas Station and Convenience Store LLC in Syracuse, and Liberty Pizza & Convenience Inc. in Jamesville, and operator Huseyin Turan failed to pay workers overtime pay when they worked over 40 hours in a workweek. The workers regularly worked between 50 and 60 hours in a workweek. The investigation also found the employer failed to keep accurate records in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Liberty Gas Station and Turan also agreed to pay $7,272 in civil money penalties assessed by the department.
The department’s investigation and litigation revealed that the employers – who paid employees only straight time wages – attempted to conceal their failure to pay overtime through multiple schemes. They paid employees by check and cash, grossly understating the amount of hours worked on their payroll records, and required employees to sign false records before distributing their pay. They also paid some employees who worked over a total of 40 hours at both Syracuse and Jamesville...
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