PEABODY — A Korean food store with locations in the city’s North Shore Mall and the Burlington Mall faces citations totaling more than $50,000 for allegedly violating wage, hour, and child labor laws, Attorney General Maura Healey’s office announced Thursday.
Losoon Park and its owners, Losoon Park and Mili “Terry” Kim face nine citations for violating a number of labor laws. Park and Kim operate several Korean food stores located in Burlington and local Simon Malls in the North Shore area. The citations they face include failure to pay wages, pay minimum wage and overtime, furnish and keep true and accurate payroll records, issue a suitable paystub, provide earned sick time, obtain a valid work permit for working teens,
and for the employment of a minor past 8:00 p.m. without supervision.
Healey’s office began an investigation of the business after a driver working for Losoon Park alleged they were not properly compensated for hours worked at the required minimum wage, or paid for overtime hours worked.
As a result, Healey’s office issued a payroll demand to the company, which has yet to furnish all required records, including payroll records and time-keeping records. Without the records, investigators have had to rely on employee testimony to audit the company.
The Fair Labor Division of Healey’s office, through its investigation of Losoon Park, found that
the company frequently failed to pay employees for hours worked. Employees were also not offered earned sick leave or provided suitable paystubs, Healey’s office said.
The investigation also uncovered that at least two minors worked past 8 p.m. without supervision and that neither minor employee had been asked for a work permit prior to or during their employment.
Charlie McKenna can be reached at [email protected].
