Boston Employer Tries to Get Away with Not Paying Employees

A Boston day care center owner was sentenced after pleading guilty for failing to pay her employees, Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office announced.

 

 

Regina Daugherty, 52, of Northborough, and her business, Kids Palace Learning Center, LLC, of Boston, pleaded guilty June 28, 2011, in Boston Municipal Court to four counts of failure to pay wages. Boston Municipal Court Judge Sally Kelly sentenced Daugherty to one year of probation and ordered her and her business to pay $3,101.72 in restitution.(WCxKit)

 

 

After receiving four separate complaints, the AG’s Fair Labor Division began an investigation into Kids Palace and Daugherty’s business practices. The employees claimed that Daugherty and her company failed to pay them for work they performed at her daycare center in Boston on various dates from August 2007 to September 2009. Investigators reviewed payroll and bank records and discovered that Kids Palace and Daugherty failed to make payments to the four employees for four separate pay periods.(WCxKit)

 

 

“We are pleased that the court has recognized the rights of workers by holding this owner accountable for not paying her employees the wages they were rightfully owed,” Coakley said. “At a time when many people are struggling financially in this economy, our office is committed to ensuring that employees receive the wages they are entitled to under the law.”