Trader Joe’s agreed to a settlement under the Grocery Employee Hazard Pay (GEHP) and Wage Theft Ordinances where they were found to have violated labor laws for not paying 95 employees who did not properly receive hazard pay or extra pay for overtime
Updated:OLS alleged Trader Joe’s, which operates five stores and employs several hundred employees in Seattle, paid employees one and one-half times the base rate of pay in addition to $4 hazard pay per each overtime hour worked. In a settlement with the City of Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards , the Trader Joe’s Company must pay $55,009.51 for violations of Seattle labor laws.
This is the second settlement Trader Joe’s has had to pay the City of Seattle within the past seven months when they allegedly failed to post work schedules with two weeks’ notice between May and October at the company’s University District store.
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