From the Labor Department file
What is on record for Rio Fresh Inc.
- Name on the record
- Rio Fresh Inc.
- Also recorded as
- Rio Fresh/Montoya, Jose FLC, Rio Fresh/Jose Montoya, Rio Fresh/Maldonado, Gustavo, Rio Fresh Produce
- Location on the record
- San Juan, Pharr, Texas
- County
- Hidalgo County
- Industry
- Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming; Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning)
- Cases
- 54 closed, 40 with a violation found, 14 with none
- Back wages agreed to pay
- $7,567
- Workers due back wages
- 188
- Civil money penalties assessed
- $36,130
- Violations recorded
- 327
- First and latest case
- 2004 to 2021
- Repeat or willful flags
- 3 flagged repeat
Every investigation
Every case on the record, newest first
| Investigation | Laws | Violations | Back wages | Workers | Penalties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2021 to November 2021 | FLSA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| September 2019 to November 2019 | FLSA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| March 2019 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| March 2019 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| March 2019 | FLSA, MSPA | 3 | $0 | 0 | $3,945 |
| March 2019 | FLSA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| November 2018 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| October 2018 to November 2018 | FLSA, OSHA housing | 2 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| April 2018 | child labor | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2017 | FLSA, MSPA | 3 | $0 | 0 | $4,309 |
| October 2015 to February 2016 | FLSA, MSPA, OSHA housing | 9 | $0 | 0 | $1,436 |
| October 2015 to February 2016 | FLSA, MSPA | 2 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| October 2015 to February 2016 | FLSA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| October 2015 to February 2016 | FLSA, MSPA, OSHA housing | 5 | $0 | 0 | $12,869 |
| October 2015 to February 2016 | OSHA housing | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| December 2015 to January 2016 | FLSA, MSPA | 2 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| November 2015 to January 2016 | FLSA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| October 2015 to January 2016 | FLSA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| October 2015 to January 2016 | MSPA, OSHA housing | 2 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| October 2015 to January 2016 | FLSA, MSPA, OSHA housing | 3 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| October 2015 to January 2016 | FLSA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| October 2015 to November 2015 | FLSA, MSPA | 9 | $250 | 5 | $600 |
| January 2015 to April 2015 | FLSA, MSPA, minimum wage, overtime repeat | 98 | $1,926 | 46 | $11,720 |
| January 2014 to February 2014 | FLSA, MSPA | 4 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| November 2012 | FLSA, MSPA | 4 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| March 2012 to April 2012 | MSPA | 3 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| December 2011 to February 2012 | FLSA, MSPA | 4 | $0 | 0 | $350 |
| January 2012 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| April 2011 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| April 2011 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| March 2011 to April 2011 | MSPA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| March 2011 to April 2011 | FLSA, MSPA | 4 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| March 2011 to April 2011 | MSPA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2009 to January 2011 | FLSA, minimum wage repeat | 85 | $2,075 | 82 | $0 |
| December 2009 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| December 2009 | MSPA | 3 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| December 2009 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| March 2009 to April 2009 | MSPA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| March 2009 to April 2009 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| November 2008 to December 2008 | MSPA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2008 to February 2008 | MSPA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2008 to February 2008 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2008 to February 2008 | MSPA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2008 to February 2008 | MSPA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2008 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2008 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2008 | FLSA, MSPA | 3 | $0 | 0 | $300 |
| November 2007 to January 2008 | FLSA, overtime | 55 | $3,317 | 55 | $0 |
| October 2006 to February 2007 | MSPA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| January 2007 to February 2007 | MSPA repeat | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| November 2006 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| November 2005 | MSPA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| February 2005 to March 2005 | FLSA, MSPA, child labor | 5 | $0 | 0 | $600 |
| November 2004 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
Investigation dates are the findings period the Department recorded, newest first. A zero is a zero in the file: a case can find a violation and agree no back wages.
By law
Laws involved and what each case found
- Fair Labor Standards Act: 25 cases, $7,318 in back wages, $10,120 in penalties
- FLSA overtime: 2 cases, $3,957 in back wages
- FLSA minimum wage: 2 cases, $3,360 in back wages
- Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act: 28 cases, $250 in back wages, $16,741 in penalties
- OSHA field sanitation and housing: 6 cases, $0 in back wages, $9,269 in penalties
- FLSA child labor: 2 cases, $0 in back wages
Plain words
What this record means and what it does not
The Wage and Hour Division enforces the federal minimum wage, overtime, child labor, family leave and the wage rules on federal contracts and visa programs. Each row above is one investigation the Division closed; of the 54 on this record, 40 ended with a violation found and 14 with none.
Back wages agreed is the amount the employer agreed to pay the workers the Division found were owed, computed at the federal rates: a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and overtime after 40 hours in a week. Where Texas has a higher state or local minimum, the same hours would come to more under state law, and that part is not in this file.
Civil money penalties are amounts the Division assessed against the employer, separate from back wages; the file records the assessment, not what was finally paid.
The Department flagged 3 cases on this record as a repeat violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which raises the penalties it may assess.
This record is federal only. It does not include claims filed with the state labor office, private lawsuits or settlements, so an employer absent from it is not an employer with a clean record, and an employer on it has not been found guilty of anything by a court. Names are written as the Department recorded them, so one business can appear under more than one legal name, and a franchise or branch can sit under its own.
If you are owed wages
Where to file a wage claim in Texas
In Texas a wage claim can go to the state: Texas Payday Law wage claim, Texas Workforce Commission takes claims under state law, which often covers more than the federal rules. The federal route is the Division's page on how to file a complaint with the Wage and Hour Division with what to send and where. The Division also keeps a search of back wages owed to workers it collected and could not deliver.
Around this employer
Nearby employers and related pages
Other employers on the record in San Juan, by back wages:
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fernandez Case Assistance | 1 | $122,945 | 47 |
| M & I Truck & Equipment Sales, Inc. | 2 | $67,466 | 50 |
| San Juan Nursing Home Inc. | 1 | $57,564 | 164 |
| Restaurant Mariscos La Costa, Inc. | 1 | $56,125 | 33 |
| Grande Produce LTD, Co. | 3 | $54,254 | 31 |
| Tree of Life Nursery, LLC | 5 | $46,453 | 28 |
| HRL Enterprises Inc. | 2 | $34,062 | 42 |
| Rus-Lup Adult Day Care LLC | 1 | $30,090 | 37 |
| La Curva Taqueria LLC | 2 | $15,202 | 32 |
| El Rancho grande LLC | 2 | $15,195 | 53 |
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Sources
Where this record comes from
The record comes from the Wage and Hour Division compliance action data published by the U.S. Department of Labor, every concluded investigation since fiscal 2005, snapshot dated April 22, 2026 and read for this page on November 5, 2026. The Wage and Hour Division is the office that made the findings. Figures are printed as the file carries them, a zero included; an investigation with no end date is shown by its start; the county is the one the Census Bureau puts the employer's ZIP code in.
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