A Texas printing company has paid over $100,000 for allegedly violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Investigators reported that the company used two different time clocks and were under contract by two separate staffing firms.
An investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division’s Dallas District Office determined that the company required employees to record hours worked on two different time clocks at the same facility during the workweek and then failed to combine those hours to determine when overtime was due.
As a result, employees failed to receive overtime for hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek.
Investigators also 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 paid $96,335 in overtime back wages and an additional $26,000 in civil money penalties.