Arancino to pay more than $100K to servers

The parent company of Oahu’s three Arancino restaurants has agreed to return $107,524 in tips and back wages to 135 servers for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The total to be returned to employees includes $86,170 in tips and $21,354 in back wages that had been redirected or withheld.

Federal investigators found the cash wage of tipped employees was reduced below the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, and that they were unlawfully required to pay a portion of their tips to non-tipped kitchen staff that already were paid at least minimum wage.

"Employers cannot take a credit against their minimum wage obligation to tipped staff when they required their tips to be shared with traditionally non-tipped staff such as kitchen employees," said Terence Trotter, the division’s Hawaii district director in a statement. "We appreciate the employer’s cooperation in resolving this matter expeditiously and in fairness to those affected."

Hawaii has two Arancino restaurants in Waikiki and one at the Kahala resort.

Marriott fined for jamming guests’ Wi-Fi

NEW YORK » Marriott International will pay the government a $600,000 fine for jamming conference attendees’ own Wi-Fi networks at one of its hotels, forcing them instead to pay as much as $1,000 each to use the hotel’s own connection.

Frequent travelers often carry personal Wi-Fi hotspots — tiny devices that can connect to the Internet via cell phone towers. For $50 a month, they can connect to the Internet on the move, often avoiding hefty fees charged by hotels, airports and conference facilities. Last year, a conference attendee at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. — which is managed by Marriott — found that the hotel was jamming their device in its ballrooms and complained to the Federal Communications Commission. In the complaint, the guest noted that it had happed previously at another Gaylord property. The FCC said Marriott charged conference exhibitors $250 to $1,000, per device, to use the Gaylord’s Wi-Fi connection.

GM issues recalls for SUVs, mini cars

DETROIT » General Motors announced two more recalls Friday, pushing its total for the year to 71, affecting almost 30 million vehicles in North America.

The biggest of the new recalls covers just more than 430,000 Cadillac SRX and Saab 9-4X SUVs, mainly in North America. The company says some rear suspension nuts may not have been tightened properly. That could cause the toe link adjuster to separate from the suspension, possibly causing a crash. Another covers the Chevrolet Spark mini car because the hoods can unexpectedly fly open.

GM also confirmed Friday that it has told dealers to stop selling Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize pickup trucks that went on sale about two weeks ago until an air bag problem is repaired.

Disney CEO could get $60M retention bonus

LOS ANGELES » To hold onto Robert A. Iger as chief executive until 2018, Disney has agreed to pay him a cash retention bonus of up to $60 million if an extremely aggressive financial target is met by the end of the 2018 fiscal year.

On Thursday, the Walt Disney Co. said Iger had agreed to extend his tenure for two years. He had been expected to retire in June 2016, which was itself an extension. On Friday, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Disney outlined the carrot the board offered.

If Disney’s cumulative adjusted operating income over the five-year period ending with fiscal 2018 reaches $78.31 billion — roughly doubling what it has been over the last five years — Iger, 63, will receive a $60 million cash bonus, according to the filing. That payment would come in addition to his annual pay package, for which the performance-based calculation will not change. A large portion of his pay is tied to Disney’s financial performance. For the fiscal year that ended Sept. 28, 2013, Iger’s base salary was $2.5 million, but his total compensation was $34.3 million.

Yahoo is in talks to invest in Snapchat

Yahoo, flush with cash from selling a portion of its stake in the Alibaba Group of China, appears ready to bet on what it believes will be the next big Internet phenomenon.

The company has held talks to invest in Snapchat, the extremely popular app that allows photos and messages to self-destruct, people briefed on the matter said on Friday. The deal has not yet closed, some of these people added.

Should Yahoo make the investment, it will join a bevy of other prominent investors, including the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, that have valued the disappearing-photo service at about $10 billion.

ON THE MOVE

Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties has announced that two new Realtor associates have joined its Kahala office:

» Monica Kitagawa previously served as a Realtor associate at Century 21 Aloha Properties.

» Vinh Duc Ta was previously a Realtor associate at Coldwell Banker Day Lum Properties on the Big Island.

The Kohala Coast Resort Association has announced Stephanie Donoho as its administrative director. She has 20 years of government, corporate and community leadership experience, including as a tourism specialist for the County of Hawaii, Department of Research and Development. She also owned her own consulting company for eight years in Hawaii and Colorado.

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