Hair Cuttery Owner Must Pay $1.1M in Pre-Virus-Closure Wages

A hair salon corporation that abruptly closed 750 locations during the pandemic, without cutting workers their final paychecks, must pay more than $1.1 million to thousands of employees under a court order, the Labor Department said.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland ordered the payments following a DOL investigation.

The case comes as federal wage enforcers also respond to a growing number of complaints from workers of being stiffed on paychecks despite logging regular hours during the coronavirus pandemic.

Creative Hairdressers Inc., which operates as Hair Cuttery, BUBBLES Salon, Salon Cielo, and Salon Plaza, shuttered all locations ...