New York City, NY - Brooklyn-based Zablocki Industries, doing business as Aunt Heddy's Bakery, and its owner, Richard Zablocki, have agreed to pay employees $25,687 in back wages and interest, following a U.S. Labor Department lawsuit alleging violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

According to Philip Jacobson, district director for the department’s Wage and Hour Division in New York City, both the company and Zablocki were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed about a year ago in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Jacobson noted that an investigation by the Wage and Hour Division found that six employees of the bakery were required to work more than 40 hours in many workweeks without being compensated properly for the overtime hours. The investigation also found that the company did not keep proper records of the number of hours employees worked and their wages.

A consent judgment prohibits the defendants from future violations of the overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the FLSA. The court order also orders the defendants to pay the back wages and interest in 19 monthly installments. The amounts are due the six workers for the period between January 3, 2003 and January 1, 2005. Link

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