KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Pilot Corp. has agreed to pay 110 assistant managers $720,000 in back wages and damages to resolve violations of the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, reported The News-Sentinel.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced the settlement late last week. It was approved by U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Varlan and requires the company to pay $43,235 in civil money penalties as well, said the report.
The labor department said Pilot had agreed to pay its convenience store employees overtime after [image-nocss] an investigation determined the assistant managers did not supervise two or more full-time employees and that supervision was not their primary duty. Pilot, however, failed to follow through with those overtime payments, according to the Labor Department.
The assistant managers worked at 52 of Pilot's c-stores in East Tennessee and Virginia.
New Overtime Security regulations took effect Aug. 23, 2004, affecting 6.7 million American workers, the report said.
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires nonsupervisory workers to be paid one-and-one-half times their regular rate of pay for each hour worked in excess of 40 hours per week.
Pilot Corp. operates 61 c-stores as well as more than 260 travel centers through Pilot Travel Centers, a partnership with Marathon Ashland Petroleum.
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