Businessman Told to Pay Overtime to Settle Suit

The owner of a Silver Lake garment manufacturing shop has been ordered to pay $1,600 in overtime wages to 23 employees to settle a lawsuit filed against the company by the U. S. Department of Labor.

U. S. District Judge Stephen Wilson ordered Ambartsoum Palian, the owner of Tereza Manufacturing Co., to compensate the workers for the more than 700 cumulative overtime hours they worked between June, 1989, and March, 1991, said Gerald Hall, assistant district director for the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Office.

The company, at 3202 Fletcher Drive, failed to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act requirement that workers be paid 1 1/2 times their regular wage for each hour over 40 in a workweek, Hall said. The company was also ordered to comply with overtime pay provisions in the future and to maintain complete and accurate records of employees’ wages and work hours, Hall said.