Queen Emma Preschool also assessed nearly $5K for willful violations
HONOLULU – A Honolulu preschool has learned an expensive lesson about willfully failing to pay required overtime wages as the law requires, after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.
Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division determined that Queen Emma Preschool – a subdivision of St. Andrew’s School – failed to pay some hourly employees when they worked outside of their regular work schedule. The employer required preschool aides to arrive early or remain later at the school to watch students whose parents dropped them off early or picked them up late. The school also required a maintenance worker to perform maintenance duties and shop for snacks for the students outside of his normal work schedule. The school’s actions incurred violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act related to the unpaid time and failure to calculate that time for overtime purposes.
Division investigators also found that the employer did not maintain proper records of employees’ work hours.
As a result of the investigation, the division has recovered a total of $49,787 – $24,893 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages – for eight preschool employees. The school has also paid $4,936 in civil money penalties assessed by the department for the willful nature of the violations.
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