SAN JOSE, CA – Denying their workers overtime pay when required has had costly consequences for the operators of six northern California pizza franchise locations from whom the U.S. Department of Labor has recovered a total of $608,272 in back wages and liquidated damages for 33 workers.
Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division determined Mountain Mike’s Pizza locations in Pittsburg, Hercules, Pinole, Fairfield, Martinez and Danville – operated by Sumeet Singh and Mandeep Saini – failed to pay proper overtime to the affected workers. The division found the employers failed to combine hours employees worked at multiple locations, leading to additional overtime violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Division investigators also found the employer allowed minor-aged workers to deliver pizzas and work outside of the hours allowed by federal child labor laws. Singh and Saini paid $13,058 in penalties to address the child labor violations.
“Sumeet Singh and Mandeep Saini required their employees to work extremely long hours but ignored their obligations to pay overtime, and to protect the well-being minor-aged workers,” said Wage and Hour Division District Director Susana Blanco in San Jose, California. “Employers whose pay practices violate the law face costly repayment of wages and damages. They may also find it more difficult to retain or recruit workers than their competitors whose actions show they respect workers’ rights and pay them their full wages....
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