Garcia v. Frog Island Seafood, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding executive officer can be deemed an “employer” if that executive officer controls significant functions of the business, including hiring and salary decisions
• finding certain deductions unlawful where they “reduce[d] a worker’s wages for [a given] week below the minimum wage” and directing defendants to “reimburse Plaintiffs up to the point that the minimum wage is met”
• “[T]he court declines to apply a unilateral contract analysis to the issue of H-2B Clearance Orders_”
• employer failed to have migrant housing inspected prior to occupancy, in violation of state law
• “findpng] th[at] transportation costs incurred by Plaintiffs operated as de facto deductions and that Defendants are liable to the extent these deductions drove Plaintiffs’ first week’s wages below the statutory minimum.
• “In interpreting the NCWHA, North Carolina courts look to the FLSA for guidance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).