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The state department of labor denied an appeal by a former Whitefish Christian ministry challenging an order to pay more than $100,000 in back wages and penalties. The state rejected Potter’s Field Ministries’ argument that former workers had donated unpaid time as an “act of god.”
Hope Greenburg worked at Potter’s Field Ministries’ Mudman Burgers chain in the Flathead Valley
. The Montana Department of Labor and Industry says she is among a handful of former employees owed tens of thousands of dollars in back pay. I’m not surprised that they have decided again that we’re owed the money, because we were obviously wronged in wages, Greenburg said.