Louisiana delivery company to pay more than $271k in overtime back wages
A Hammond, Louisiana-based commercial delivery service company has agreed to pay $271,303 in overtime back wages to more than 100 of its current and former employees after being found in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, reports KATC-TV.
Statewide Transport, which has branches in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, was found to have paid regular wages for all hours worked by 105 of the delivery drivers and warehouse workers on its payroll. Time-and-a-half should have been paid for more than 40 hours in a week, as required by federal law.
"Employees worked as many as 78 hours in a workweek without receiving overtime compensation," said Cynthia Watson, regional administrator of the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division in the southwest, according to the news source. "That practice is illegal."
Elsewhere in Louisiana, state employees' overtime has come under scrutiny for the opposite reason.
According to nonprofit research organization The Pelican Institute, some workers more than doubled their base salaries in overtime pay last year, reports WDSU-TV. The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development recently released a statement saying that a new policy has since been enacted in order to restrict overtime payouts.
Statewide Transport, which has branches in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, was found to have paid regular wages for all hours worked by 105 of the delivery drivers and warehouse workers on its payroll. Time-and-a-half should have been paid for more than 40 hours in a week, as required by federal law.
"Employees worked as many as 78 hours in a workweek without receiving overtime compensation," said Cynthia Watson, regional administrator of the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division in the southwest, according to the news source. "That practice is illegal."
Elsewhere in Louisiana, state employees' overtime has come under scrutiny for the opposite reason.
According to nonprofit research organization The Pelican Institute, some workers more than doubled their base salaries in overtime pay last year, reports WDSU-TV. The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development recently released a statement saying that a new policy has since been enacted in order to restrict overtime payouts.
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