{"id":61147,"date":"2014-12-16T11:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=61147"},"modified":"2014-12-17T08:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T14:28:16","slug":"brian-patel-sued-by-u-s-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=61147","title":{"rendered":"Brian Patel sued by US Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hotel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-61216\" alt=\"hotel\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hotel-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hotel-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hotel-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hotel.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The U.S. Department of Labor is suing a Fargo-based hotel owner for allegedly failing to pay minimum wage and overtime rates in North Dakota and Montana.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint says that Bharat &#8220;Brian&#8221; Patel owes about $100,000 in back wages and $100,000 in damages to front-desk clerks, housekeeping staff and other hotel employees. The case involves 193 workers at 13 hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Patel incorrectly classified some workers as exempt salaried employees. Hourly employees allegedly received straight-time pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek and were not paid the legally required time and one-half.\u00a0\u00a0<strong> <\/strong>Patel has hotels in Fargo, Jamestown, Dickinson, Valley City, Wahpeton and Glendive, Montana.<\/p>\n<p>The hotels involved included Econo Lodge East, Econo Lodge West, Fargo Quality Inn, Super 8 Fargo and Quality Suites, in Fargo;<strong> Hampton Inn and Suites, in Jamestown<\/strong>; Travel Inn, Super 8 Motel and Travel Host Motel, which operates as the Relax Inn, in Dickinson; <strong>Super 8, in Valley City<\/strong>; Rodeway Inn, in Wahpeton; and the Super 8 Glendive and Comfort Inn Glendive, in Montana. Patel\u2019s company has headquarters in Fargo.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents do not list an attorney for Patel, who could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Information on the Fair Labor Standards Act&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/flsa\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/flsa\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The U.S. Department of Labor is suing a Fargo-based hotel owner for allegedly failing to pay minimum wage and overtime rates in North Dakota and Montana. The complaint says that Bharat &#8220;Brian&#8221; Patel owes about $100,000 in back wages and $100,000 in damages to front-desk clerks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61185,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61147\/revisions\/61185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}