Case ID: so2d_373/html/0510-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TATE, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Daniel E. LAZAUSKAS v. LOUISIANA OFFSHORE CATERERS, INC.
    No. 64665.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    June 11, 1979.
   In re Daniel E. Lazauskas, applying for certiorari, or writ of review, to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit. Parish of Terrebonne. 371 So.2d 1183.

Writ denied.

TATE, J.,

would grant. No equitable defense justified the employer not to pay the workman his three hours overtime, and he is entitled to statutory wage penalties. The penalty statute was designed to penalize the unjustified underpayment of wages, however small in amount. Indeed, the smaller the amount, the greater the need for penalty.