IPI would have to pay the US Department of Labour following a second amended consent judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Northern Mariana Islands.- A second amended consent judgment will require Imperial Pacific International (IPI)<\/strong> to pay the US Department of Labour $2.2m<\/strong>\u00a0after it defied the court’s previous injunction in a lawsuit for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Second Amended Consent Order signed by IPI and USDOL determines that IPI violated H-2B regulations, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 and the Fair Labor Standards Act through its failure to pay the promised rate. It also breached the accompanying Fair Labor Standards Act overtime premium pay to employees hired under the H-2B programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the court approves the consent judgment<\/strong>, $1m will be paid for back wages of the affected workers. IPI will also be ordered to pay $1m as liquidated damages, and an additional $174,894 as civil monetary penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n IPI breached the first consent judgment on December 1, 2019, when it failed to pay USDOL $1.02m. In May 2020, USDOL found that IPI had failed to meet its payroll obligations and violated the ruling’s injunction against violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Jess Aquiningoc, the former head of Imperial Pacific International\u2019s construction team, is suing the company<\/a>\u00a0for failing to pay him money owed.\u00a0And the\u00a0US Marshals Service has seized funds from IPI<\/a>\u00a0in order to satisfy a court judgement in favour of Red Coral Corp. The company had sued the casino operator for\u00a0failing to pay leases on a 20-unit apartment complex<\/strong>\u00a0between January 2019 and August 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IPI would have to pay the US Department of Labour following a second amended consent judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI) faces a second amended consent judgment requiring a $2.2m payment to the US Department of Labour for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act and H-2B regulations, including unpaid wages and overtime. This follows IPI's breach of a prior consent judgment and ongoing financial liabilities, including a lawsuit from a former construction head and seized funds for unpaid leases to Red Coral Corp. The cumulative legal and financial pressures highlight significant governance and operational compliance failures at the casino operator.","focusai_entities":"Imperial Pacific International, IPI, US Department of Labour, USDOL, Jess Aquiningoc, US Marshals Service, Red Coral Corp.","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, United States","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI's Financial Viability?","query":"Given the cumulative fines, back wages, and ongoing legal judgments, what is the current assessment of Imperial Pacific International's long-term financial viability and operational sustainability in the Northern Mariana Islands?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Impact?","query":"How might this second amended consent judgment and the US Department of Labour's persistent enforcement actions influence future regulatory scrutiny and compliance expectations for other operators in US territories?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[24134,22674],"class_list":["post-31315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-imperial-pacific-international","tag-ipi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31321,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31315\/revisions\/31321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}