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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: El Calamar Inc.
Penalty: $96,014
Year: 2016
Date: December 15, 2016
Offense Group: employment-related offenses
Primary Offense: wage and hour violation
Secondary Offense: Fair Labor Standards Act
Violation Description: The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found that the El Calamar restaurant violated the Fair Labor Standards Act when it failed to pay required overtime to 11 workers employed as cooks. The employer sometimes paid these workers straight time for overtime, in cash; sometimes made only partial overtime payments, in cash; and sometimes recorded only 80 hours worked in a two-week period on the payroll when, in fact, the employees worked 60 to 90 hours per week on average.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Labor Department Wage and Hour Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: California
Facility City: Santa Ana
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.