ALBANY, NY – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $37,103 in back wages for 86 workers employed by three agricultural industry employers — a Wayne County farm, a Michigan farm labor contractor and a Genesee County warehouse operator — whose employment practices shortchanged their wages and denied monies owed to them under federal regulations protecting temporary farmworkers.
The wage recovery began with an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division at Lake Breeze Fruit Farms Inc. in Sodus, where the division determined the employer did not pay certain salaried employees — non-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act — the proper overtime rate for hours over 40 in workweeks when they handled other farms’ goods. Investigators also found the employer failed to keep accurate records of salaried non-exempt employees’ work hours, as required. To resolve its FLSA violations, Lake Breeze Fruit Farms paid $6,177 in back wages to 54 workers.
The division also learned that workers at the farm under the federal H-2A temporary agricultural program labored seven days a week but the employer did not pay them overtime for working on their day of rest, a violation of Lake Breeze’s promise to follow New York state law as part of its H-2A obligations. Investigators also determined that, while Lake Breeze kept a record of total weekly hours worked, they failed to record daily hours worked, an H-2A program requirement. The employer paid an additional $4,339 in back wages...
A post claiming to list all the actions taken by the Home Minister in Kashmir in the last 10 days is going viral on social media. The posts list out 18 points, which include claims regarding citiz...