50 vending machine workers getting $106,000 in unpaid wages, damages

Federal investigators person recovered $106,245 successful unpaid overtime wages and damages for 50 Southern California vending instrumentality workers who weren’t paid for moving done each oregon portion of their luncheon breaks.

Investigators with the U.S. Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division recovered Parks Coffee California Inc. violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by making automatic one-hour luncheon interruption deductions adjacent though worker breaks were not ever escaped of work.

The company, which supplies and operates beverage vending machines, besides violated overtime requirements by failing to papers and see bonuses and commissions successful workers’ rate-of-pay erstwhile they worked much than 40 hours successful a workweek.

The probe led to the betterment of $53,122 successful backmost wages, positive an further $53,122 successful damages for the 50 employees.

The company, a subsidiary of Parks Coffee Inc. of Carrollton, Texas, has offices successful Santa Fe Springs and operates gourmet vending machines successful bureau buildings and workplaces passim the greater Los Angeles and San Diego areas.

Representatives with the institution — which besides provides work to customers successful Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona and Louisiana — could not beryllium reached for comment.

“Parks Coffee is liable for knowing what the instrumentality considers ‘working time’ for the close outgo of wages,” said Skarleth Kozlo, adjunct territory manager for the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour operations successful West Covina.