Lumber company errs in overtime pay Ganahl...

Lumber company

errs in overtime pay

Ganahl Lumber Company paid employees more than $200,000 in unpaid

overtime, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday.

The company incorrectly calculated the overtime pay of hourly

workers and erroneously listed salaried employees as exempt from

overtime pay, according to the department. Ganahl Lumber Company,

which has headquarters in Anaheim, with lumber yards in Costa Mesa

and other Orange County cities, corrected the error by paying a total

of $212,904 to 505 sales employees.

Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has a website to help employers

determine how to pay and classify their employees. Go to

https://www.wagehour.dol.gov for more information.

Church to screen

free documentary

A Costa Mesa church will host a free movie screening June 25.

The Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church will show “The

Corporation” starting at 5:30 p.m.

The documentary is based on the book “The Corporation: The

Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power” by Joel Bakan. The film has

won 24 international awards, including one at the 2004 Sundance Film

Festival.

It includes interviews with executives from the oil,

pharmaceutical, computer, advertising and other industries. For more

information on the film, go to https://www.thecorporation.com/.

The Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church is at 1259 Victoria

St. in Costa Mesa. For more information, go to https://www.ocuuc.org

or call (949) 646-4652.

Hoag Hospital gives centennial shot in arm

A Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian gift of $100,000 makes the

hospital the first major donor to Newport Beach’s planned centennial

celebration, Mayor Steve Bromberg announced Tuesday. The city hopes

to raise at least $750,000 toward an estimated $1 million budget for

the year-long festivities.

The city’s official 100th birthday is Sept. 1, 2006. Planned events for the centennial include a beach party this fall, a carnival

and entering a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena.

Bromberg said he’s met with at least half a dozen other major

sponsors for the centennial and hopes to announce more funding soon.