IMPERIAL Pacific International LLC and the U.S. Department of Labor are now trying to resolve the issue of how much — in addition to what is covered by the settlement payments — is still owed to IPI employees, IPI attorney Michael Dotts said.
In IPI’s 24th status report to the federal court, he said no payroll was due during the reporting period (June 21 to June 27, 2021), and that IPI’s next payroll is to be distributed on Friday, July 2, (Payroll 14).
Dotts said no settlement payment was due during the reporting period, but IPI’s next settlement payment is due on Thursday, July 1.
Construction work at the Imperial Pacific Resort in Garapan remains suspended as ordered by the court, he added.
As for employee housing, food, and repatriation, Dotts said, “There is nothing new to report.”
The settlement payment is part of the amended consent judgment between IPI and the USDOL that requires the casino investor to pay wages owed to its former employees.
IPI is also required to file weekly status updates of its progress in purging contempt and complying with the consent judgment.
District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona had ordered IPI to pay $1,182,793 owed as back wages under the 2019 consent judgment or go into receivership.
On March 23, 2021, IPI and the U.S. Department of Labor requested the court to modify the 2019 consent judgment through a stipulation. The total amount owed under the previous consent judgment was $3,360,000.
According to the stipulation of the parties, IPI paid a total of $1,929,425.28 toward the consent judgment from March 2019 to March 2021. The remaining balance from the previous consent judgment is $1,430,574 plus $47,856 wages currently owed for a total amount of $1,478,430.00 due in the first amended consent judgment.
IPI was ordered to make incremental monthly payments of $164,270.08 from April 1, 2021 to December 1, 2021 for a total amount of $1,478,430.72.
To date IPI has made payments from April to June 2021 totaling $492,810.24.
Michael Dotts
