SAN ANTONIO – A federal investigation revealed the operators of three La Panadería Bakery Café locations in San Antonio violated child labor provisions in addition to minimal wage and extra time pay necessities.
The U.S. Department of Labor mentioned in a information launch that its Wage and Hour Division investigated the pay practices of three companies: Tequila Almond Croissant, LLC, Pan Dulce, LLC and SA Bakery Co., LLC — which all do enterprise as La Panadería on the following three locations:
301 East Houston Street
17030 Fiesta Texas Drive
8305 Broadway
According to the discharge, the employers violated child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act after using a 13-year-old and permitting a 15-year-old to work in a single day. Overnight work is prohibited for 14 and 15-year-olds, the company mentioned.
The division issued a $25,706 penalty for the child labor violations, the discharge states.
The investigation additionally uncovered minimal wage violations after the employers apparently didn’t pay a employee for 2 in a single day shifts on the La Cantera location on Fiesta Texas Drive.
The employers are additionally accused of failing to mix hours for workers who labored at a number of bakery locations and paying the workers straight-time charges as a substitute of the required time-and-one-half extra time charges.
In whole, the U.S. Department of Labor mentioned La Panadería paid $45,000 in again wages and penalties.
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