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Federal Tipoffs Involving Hawaii Newsletter for Sunday December 22, 2019 ( 2 items )  

American Samoa Power Authority to Pay Employees $110,865 After U.S. Department of Labor Finds Overtime Violations
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), the American Samoa Power Authority - an American Samoa public utility - will pay $110,865 to 180 employees for violating overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). WHD investigators found the American Samoa Power Authority altered employees' time records to cap shifts at ei  more

Symposium Hosts Unprecedented Number of Air Chiefs From Across the Indo-Pacific
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, Dec. 16 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: Air chiefs and leadership from the Indo-Pacific region gathered for the 2019 Pacific Air Chiefs Symposium at Headquarters Pacific Air Forces Dec. 3-6, jointly hosted by U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein and Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr., PACAF commander. Under the theme "A Collaborative Approach to Regional Security," Brown opened the event highlighting the importance of a mutual understandin  more