U.S. Department of Labor issued the following announcement on Aug. 28.
After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), US Aluminum Services Corp. – a residential aluminum construction contractor based in Orlando, Florida – will pay 19 employees $32,702 in owed wages for violating overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
WHD investigators determined US Aluminum Services Corp. paid its employees a flat rate per day, regardless of the number of hours they worked in a workweek. This practice resulted in violations when employees worked more than 40 hours in a workweek and the employer failed to pay them overtime. The employer also failed to keep required records of the total number of hours employees worked.
“Paying workers a piece-rate or day-rate does not mean that those workers are not entitled to overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week,” said Wage and Hour Division District Director Wildalí De Jesús, in Orlando, Florida. “The U.S. Department of Labor is committed to educating employers and improving compliance with federal wage laws to protect American workers and to level the playing field for law-abiding employers.”
The Department offers numerous resources to ensure employers have the tools they need to understand their responsibilities and to comply with federal law, such as online videos and confidential calls to local WHD offices.
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