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▲ Stacked coins. (Photo = Pixar Bay) |
[에너지경제신문 안효건 기자] When a representative of a luxury vehicle repair shop in the United States was reported for not paying a salary to an employee who quit, it was reported that he paid it in 90,000 oil-filled coins.
It is reported that the US Department of Labor has stepped back, saying there are no related regulations.
According to the New York Times (NYT) on the 25th (local time), the president of the’Okay Walker Luxury Repair Shop’, a luxury vehicle repair shop in Peachtree City, Georgia, recently put coins in the driveway in front of the house where former employee Andreas Platen resides. I piled up like that.
Platen, who worked as a repair shop manager, suffered a discord with the representative because the leave time at 5 p.m. was not well observed at the time of the contract.
He left the company in November of last year and has not been paid 915 dollars (approximately 1,040,000 won) in three months.
Eventually he reported this to the Ministry of Labor.
Then, on the 12th, a man who appears to be a repair shop employee visited Platen.
He said, “Your money is at the end of the driveway,” and went back.
Platen went to the driveway and found a pile of 1-cent coins. It was accompanied by a white envelope with pay stubs. The envelope was written with blatant profanity.
Platen didn’t count the exact number of coins. If the coin was actually $915, that’s 9,1500.
Also, there was a liquid that smelled bad on the coin. Upon closer examination, it was presumed to be’power steering oil’ that is injected when the steering wheel is moved.
The story became known as Platen’s girlfriend posted the story with a coin photo on Instagram and the media reported it.
Platen and his girlfriend loaded the coins into a handcart, moved them to the garage, and cleaned the oiled coins one by one for two hours.
He was angry and thought about how to sue the business. However, when I heard that this was not illegal, I quit.
The US Department of Labor responded to a press question about whether it was legal to pay employee salaries in oiled one-cent coins, “there is no regulation specifying what type of currency the salary should be paid.”
In an interview with the local media CBS46, Miles Walker, the owner of the maintenance shop, replied that he did not remember leaving a pack of 1 cent coins in front of the retired employee’s house.
Still, he added, “It’s not really important. It’s important that he got the money.