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Omaha Steve (48,683 posts)N.J. gas attendants were underpaid, federal probe showsSource: CBS NewsByKATE GIBSONMore than 1,100 gasoline station attendants in New Jersey have received $5.5 million in back wages and damages after a multiyear probe by the U.S. Department of Labor found the workers had not been paid the minimum wage and in some cases, overtime pay, the federal agency said Thursday."Our investigations of the New Jersey gas station industry found widespread violating of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions," Mark Watson, regional administrator of the Wage and Hour Division in the Northeast, said in a statement.Employees covered by the act must be paid no less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, with non-agricultural and other non-exempt workers entitled to time-and-a-half of their regular rates for every hour they work above 40 hours a week.FULL story at link.Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nj-gas-attendants-were-underpaid-federal-probe-shows/
cstanleytech (8,130 posts)1. 5.5 million award? Yup I am sure that will teach the companies a lesson all rightReply to this postBack to top Alert abuse Link here PermalinkResponse to cstanleytech (Reply #1)Fri Mar 27, 2015, 06:48 PMStar Member BumRushDaShow (15,718 posts)3. Am thinking this is against the individual station (franchise) ownersversus the oil companies that supply them.It's similar when they go after the individual owners when they tried to gouge on prices after major storms, etc.
elleng (54,210 posts)2. This in the State that forces gas station attendants to pump gas,and doesn't allow customers to do so.
BumRushDaShow (15,718 posts)4. Underpaying is how they keep their per gal prices cheaperCome across the bridges here to Philly and it's like day and night (although it seems the price differential often comes out to the cost of the toll).
Gormy Cuss (29,461 posts)5. Unlike the 48 states that force customers to pump their own gas.eta: NJ has relatively low pump prices because of low gas taxes and because it has refineries which lowers the transport cost.
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I don't give him credit for the gas thread. Everybody loves to bitch about gas prices (shooting fish in a barrel).
Like Skippy's gangrene-riddled brain, Omaha Steve is decomposing before he dies.Damn DUmmies, can't even die right.