The U.S Department of Labor says a hotel in Ionia will pay $110,000 back in wages and damages to six employees, including two who worked over 40 hours a week for the better part of a year without getting paid.
For nearly 10 months, the couple believed they were working to earn free lodging at the hotel, but the department says the hotel still charged them to stay on some nights. and declined to pay them from March 2020 to December and did not pay four other employees minimum wages or overtime.
The DOL says a federal judge on Wednesday signed a consent judgment, which requires the hotel to pay the back wages and forgive the employees’ hotel bill.
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