A car wash in Santa Monica, Calif. was recently ordered by the Los Angeles County Superior Court to pay back 75 workers for wage and labor violations after employee time was willfully miscalculated and sometimes totally ignored.

The group of workers is collectively owed $656,000, according to local news source The Santa Monica Lookout. That number does not include the cost of the investigation into the business by city departments, which the car wash is also responsible for. The business' supervisor and general manager also received short sentences for hard labor and community service, respectively.

"This is an excellent result," city attorney Adam Radinsky told The Lookout. "The workers get full back pay, some over $21,000 each. The company has to clean up its act going forward, or the court will make sure of that."

Among the recorded violations of employee tracking were a lack of mandated lunch breaks, payment per hour below California's minimum wage and lack of compensation on days management deemed to be slow.

Labor violations at car washes aren't just a problem in California. A Texas car wash recently lost a case in federal court over improper employee payment and hour tracking, according to The Brownsville Herald.

The proper attitude towards employee compensation and effective time and attendance software can help businesses maintain proper records, effectively pay workers and stay away from lawsuits.

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