Employees of Dahdoul Textiles in Los Angeles will receive long overdue wages, according to a release from the United States Department of Labor. In total, 57 employees will share $260,000 to make up for their unpaid time and attendance, a sum that includes $130,000 for the overtime pay they never received and a matching amount in liquidated damages.

The home furnishings company was shorting its staff members for the long hours they worked, according to the DOL. Employees are supposed to earn one-and-a-half times their normal hourly pay if they are on the timeclock for more than 40 hours each week. But the company violated this basic labor standard and tried to cover it up, investigators allege.

Instead of paying workers the time-and-a-half they should have earned, the company paid straight wages for extra hours. What's worse - Dahdoul Textiles kept a separate set of payroll records to hide this practice.

"The fact that we were able to recover double the original wages owed to the workers serves as a warning to employers who try to skirt the law, that they may face serious financial consequences," said Kimchi Bui, Los Angeles WHD district office director.

Employers are often fined further if the DOL discovers the payroll violations were not accidental, but deliberate and that employers made attempts to conceal them.

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