IMPERIAL Pacific International LLC is planning to repatriate its CW-1 employees next month, IPI attorney Michael Dotts said in his 18th status report to the federal court.
He also said that no payroll was scheduled for distribution during the reporting period, and that IPI’s next payroll is to be distributed this Friday, May 21, (Payroll 11).
No settlement payments were due during the reporting period, he added, but IPI’s next settlement payment is due on June 1.
In IPI’s 17th report, it stated that all its H-2B workers willing to be repatriated had been repatriated.
As a result, Dotts said in his latest report, there is nothing new to report on employee food and housing.
Moreover, construction work at the Imperial Pacific Resort in Garapan remains suspended as ordered by the court.
“There is nothing further to report,” Dotts said.
On March 29, 2021, Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona of the District Court for the NMI approved the first amended consent judgment between IPI and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Judge Manglona also suspended the previously ordered receivership for the casino developer.
The total amount owed by IPI 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 in wages owed for a total amount of $1,478,430.00 due.
To purge contempt and to pay the amounts remaining in the initial consent judgment as well as the unpaid total for work periods 21-26 and 1-3, IPI was ordered to make incremental monthly payments of $164,270.08 from April 1, 2021 to Dec. 1, 2021 for a total amount of $1,478,430.72.
So far, IPI has already made two monthly payments of $164,270.08 in April and May.
