Whitefish Ministry Agrees To Pay $118,000 In Back Wages
A Christian ministry based in Whitefish which operates the Mudman Burgers chain has agreed to pay former employees roughly $118,000 in back pay and penalties for those unpaid wages.
Potter’s Field Ministries agreed to pay worker’s unpaid wages following decisions against the ministry by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry last month. The state found the group illegally underpaid five employees, totaling roughly $118,000 in both back wages and penalties.
Potter’s Field In-House Council Sharon DiMuro confirmed to MTPR in a text message that the non-profit is paying its former workers what they are owed, but declined to make any further comment.
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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.