Getting a job with a local grocer or restaurant is much better than working for a nameless, faceless corporation, right? The supervisors will foster a sense of community and owners will make sure employees are always rewarded for their hard work.

While this may very well be the case at many small supermarkets across the country, it was not found to be true at Ohio's La Plaza Tapatia Supermarket, Los Tres Amigos Supermarket and Jalapenos Mexican Restaurant & Cantina, where it's alleged that employees were regularly required to put in as much as 70 hours of time and attendance, yet received only $300 as part of their weekly fixed salaries.

What's worse - the DOL suspects the employer attempted to falsify payroll records in an effort to conceal the lost wages.

To provide the company's staff members with the wages they should have earned for their employee attendance, the DOL has ordered the employers to pay 267 workers a total of $232,000 in back wages. Additionally, the employers must install timeclocks to avoid future violations.

This is how the back pay breaks down for each facility:

- 85 Los Tres Amigos Supermarket employees will receive $88,795 altogether

- 126 La Plaza Tapatia Supermarket workers will be given $113,793 in total

- 30 Los Jalapenos Reynoldsburg staff members will be paid $9,061 in all

- 17 Los Jalapenos Grove City employees will be paid $18,159 combined

- Nine Los Jalapenos Gahanna workers will be given $2,190 in total recovered wages

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