Super 88, Mass. AG reach wage settlement

Super 88 Market, a local supermarket chain, has agreed to pay $200,000 in restitution and fines to settle allegations that it failed to pay some employees minimum wages and overtime pay, the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said today.

Coakley's office said it began an investigation into the chain last year after receiving complaints from former Super 88 employees.

Under the settlement agreement disclosed today, Super 88 agreed to pay $175,000 in restitution to more than 300 current and former employees, along with a fine of $25,000 to the commonwealth, Coakley's office said

As part of the settlement, Super 88 must also implement a new timekeeping-audit system and provide education and a handbook to employees that describes their benefits, Coakley's office said.

The attorney general's office is responsible for enforcing the prevailing wage, minimum wage, and overtime laws, and the payment of wages laws in the commonwealth.

An attempt to reach Super 88 for comment was not immediately successful.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)