BOSTON — A Boston wholesale company providing baked goods to a variety of retail stores and supermarket chains, along with its President and Treasurer, and five temporary staffing agencies that provided workers to the company, have been issued 30 citations totaling more than $440,000 in restitution and penalties for failing to comply with a variety of state wage and hour laws, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced.
Dutch Maid Bakery, Inc. and Dutch Maid Bakery Massachusetts Business Trust, and its President, Gary Blanken, and Treasurer, Joseph Pearson Jr., along with the staffing agency Hub Personnel Services, Inc., and its President and Treasurer Hoang Walter Nguyen, of Dorchester, were issued 11 citations in total. The citations were for wage and hour violations, including: failure to pay minimum wage and overtime wages, failure to furnish true and accurate payroll records, failure to keep true and accurate payroll records, failure to furnish suitable pay stubs, failure to provide workers written notice of earned sick time leave and failure to provide adequate notice of the Temporary Worker Right to Know Law to workers.
“Workers deserve to be paid their rightful wage – and when they aren’t, our office will hold their employer accountable,” AG Campbell said. “As we push for greater economic stability for our residents, tackling the issue of wage theft will remain a priority for this office.”
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