Opinion ID: 678828
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Damages Under AWPA

Text: 52 The district court held that its damage award compensated the nine plaintiffs for Gasper's FLSA violations and his AWPA violations of failing to keep proper business records. The court computed the damage award to these nine plaintiffs as if only the FLSA had been violated. 10 Gasper did not keep the records required of farm labor contractors under the AWPA. 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1831. The Department of Labor also fined Gasper in 1981 for inadequate business records. Had the nine plaintiffs been awarded less relief under the FLSA, the district court may have awarded them more under the AWPA. If that be the case, then, since these plaintiffs' damages under the FLSA will be reduced because their travel time is not compensable, and may be further reduced if some or all of their wait time is not compensable, the district court may want to allow these nine plaintiffs a damage award for Gasper's violations of the AWPA. 11 Accordingly, we authorize the district court to reconsider its zero AWPA award to these nine plaintiffs (but not its AWPA award to the other class members), if and to the extent the district court determines that a larger AWPA award would properly have been made had these nine plaintiffs achieved an FLSA award of the size ultimately determined on remand. The total judgment on remand, however, may not exceed that previously imposed.