Grocer agrees to pay backwages
Daily Camera
Published February 7, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
A discount natural grocer based in Boulder has agreed to pay more than $125,000 in back wages to its employees, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division said Wednesday.
Sunflower Farmers Market - co-founded by Mike Gilliland, who also co-founded Boulder's Wild Oats Markets - has stores in Denver, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Phoenix and Tempe, Ariz.
A Boulder store is slated to open this spring.
Seventy-eight workers will receive the back pay after the federal agency found the company had been "misapplying the executive and administrative exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which resulted in the workers being due $125,310 in overtime back wages," according to a media release.
An additional $10,000 will also be paid out by the company for violations of child labor regulations, specifically allowing six minors to work past 9 p.m.
Gilliland could not be reached for comment.
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