CUSTER, S.D. (AP) - Custer State Park Resort in western South
Dakota's Black Hills is appealing $65,000 in penalties assessed by
the federal Labor Department.
Director Josh Schmaltz tells The Associated Press that the
resort did not willingly exploit temporary workers from Indonesia
and the Philippines. He says the resort also paid back wages that
the Labor Department determined was owed to those employees.
The Labor Department assessed the penalties and ordered the
resort to pay $93,000 in back wages to 72 workers. The agency says
the workers were illegally required to pay fees to get jobs and
some were not paid overtime.
Schmaltz says the resort had been told it was exempt from
overtime rules, and that it had no knowledge that a worker
recruitment agency was charging workers impermissible fees.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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