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Three North Jersey supermarkets owe approximately $1.8 million in overtime pay to 226 employees, the U.S. Department of Labor announced on Thursday. The department recovered $917,455 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages from the Giant Farmers Markets in Hackensack, Oakland and Waldwick.
The Labor Department also assessed $80,428 in civil money penalties due to the willful nature of the violations.
“The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the pay practices of D & J Enterprise LLC, J & Y Giant LLC and Waldwick Farmers Market LLC, operating as Giant Farmers Market and operated by John Lee and Diana Lee, violated provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act,” the department wrote in a release.
The FLSA requires that most U.S. employees receive at least the federal minimum wage for all hours worked. For all hours worked over 40 in one workweek, federal regulations stipulate overtime pay of at least time and one-half the required rate of pay. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 per hour. New Jersey’s minimum wage is currently $14.13 per hour.
The Department of Labor began their investigation in August 2021. They discovered that, since the beginning of their investigation, the three Giants Farmers Markets had violated overtime pay regulations in multiple different ways.
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