KEVIL, KY – Twenty-three employees of three Kentucky gas stations and convenience stores are now being paid for all the wages they earned after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found their employer violated the law by willfully sidestepping required overtime wages owed.
The department’s Wage and Hour Division investigators found Doloma Corp. – operating as Indian Hills #6 in Arlington and Indian Hills #1 in Wickliffe – and Parth Corp. – operating as Indian Hills #3 in Kevil – paid only straight-time wages when employees worked more than 40 hours in a workweek. The employer paid workers by check for their first 40 hours, then paid straight-time wages in cash for all the hours worked over 40 in that workweek. By doing so, the employer denied workers the required additional half-time rate for overtime hours. The employer also failed to maintain an accurate record of hours the employees worked. Their practices violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The investigation led the division to recover $10,618 in back wages and liquidated damages for the workers, and assess Doloma Corp. with a $16,703 civil money penalty to address its willful violations. The review also found the employer owed $555 in back wages to an employee who they wrongly denied emergency paid sick leave while the worker self-quarantined after contracting coronavirus. The refusal to pay the employee emergency sick leave violated the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
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