A former McDonald's franchisee in Pennsylvania violated federal minimum wage and overtime laws and has agreed to pay more than $200,000 in back pay to nearly 300 employees, the Department of Labor said.
The employees – who worked at the company's six locations across central Pennsylvania – included 178 foreign student workers.
Headed by Andrew Cheung and based in Middletown, Pa., "Cheung Enterprises not only failed to properly pay its employees, it willfully took advantage of vulnerable student workers living and working in our country under the J-1 visa program," said Al Gristina, director of the division's Wilkes-Barre District Office, which conducted the investigation.
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