A group of workers who performed contracted janitorial labor for Target might soon receive some of the wages they were allegedly owed for working more than 40 hours in a single week. Diversified Maintenance Systems, the cleaning company that supplied the contracted employees, recently reached a settlement that could put a total of $675,000 in the pockets of affected workers, a group that numbers approximately 200 to 250 people.

According to a lawsuit filed by Diversified employees, the company asked them to punch into timeclocks with their own identification cards for their time and attendance on the first five or six days of their workweeks, but would ask workers to use a different ID for the sixth or seventh day of work. The alternative cards belonged to former staff members - ghost workers, employees allege.

This practice was implemented to avoid paying workers excessive overtime wages, the workers claimed. Rather than adding the total hours worked to an individual's paycheck, the extra employee attendance added to the ghost timecards was paid out in cash reflecting the standard hourly rate rather than the time-and-a-half pay that's owed.

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