According to a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) press release, two federal investigations have found that temporary production line workers at J&J Snack Foods Corp., a North American manufacturer and distributor of popular food and beverages, were significantly cheated out of their wages by the company and two staffing firms hired to provide the workers.
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The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division found J&J and the staffing firms denied minimum wage and overtime pay to workers as required under the Fair Labor Standards Act. As a result, J&J—a repeat FLSA violator—has agreed to pay a total of more than $2.1 million in back wages and liquidated damages to 677 workers.
Earlier this year, the department found that J&J and Pennpak, a staffing firm that provided workers at the J&J facility in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, failed to pay their workers at least the federal minimum wage and overtime.
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