City Slaps West Seattle Caterer With $335K Fine for Minimum Wage Violation
The City of Seattle has a fined West Seattle airline catering firm $335,033 for violating the minimum wage law.
From a press release that just hit our inbox:
“The Seattle Office of Labor Standards (OLS) found that LSG Sky Chefs violated Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance, and has ordered the company to pay $210,213 in lost wages plus interest to 156 employees and $109,320 in liquidated damages. OLS also levied $15,500 in penalties for first time violations and failure to cooperate with its investigation. The total amount assessed was $335,033.”
The city in its press release suggests that Sky Chefs, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, purposely made the investigation into the wage-law violations difficult:
“The investigation was … delayed when Sky Chefs released weekly payroll records for 165 employees to OLS investigators in a non-alphabetized stack of 14,000 individual pieces of paper, resulting in investigators’ spending 201 hours to calculate individual employees’ wages, shift differentials and overtime payments over a period of 4 months.”
Read more: http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/meanwhile-the-minimum-wage-is-hitting-15-an-hour-for-some-employees-in-seattle/
