A Texas printing company has paid $96,335 in overtime back wages to 101 employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. Civil money penalties assessed total an additional $26,000.
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Investigators found that employees were under contract by two separate staffing agencies simultaneously to provide services for the company, with hours worked Monday through Wednesday charged to one temporary help service, and hours worked by the same employees for the same employer Thursday through Sunday charged to another service.
Additionally, investigators determined that some salaried employees were wrongly classified as exempt from receiving overtime.
The company has agreed to comply fully with the FLSA. Back wages and civil money penalties have been paid in full.