Court orders back pay for Greenbrier Resort employees

Nearly three dozen workers at a resort owned by Gov. Jim Justice have won $23,000 in back wages and damages after they were denied overtime pay. The 34 employees mostly worked in two restaurants at The Greenbrier resort’s Sporting Club, according to the U.S. Labor Department. The agency said the employer failed to include a mandatory 20% service charge for members’ food and beverages in employees’ regular pay rates and that meant the workers were not paid the proper overtime rate. The department’s Wage and Hour Division also found the employer failed to identify accurate rates of pay on payroll records.