A Georgia auto repair shop broke the law when it dumped $915 in change on a former employee's driveway, regulator alleges.
under federal law, according to the agency."Workers are entitled to receive information about their rights in the workplace and obtain the wages they earned without fear of harassment or intimidation," an official with the agency's wage and hour division in Atlanta said in a The Labor Department also determined that Walker had illegally deprived other workers at the shop of overtime pay, as well as failing to keep proper pay and work records. It is asking a U.S.
A statement posted on A OK Walker Autoworks' website, labeled"pennies," said the company asked the Labor Department if it was allowed to pay Flaten"in cash of any denomination" and that the agency did not offer specific guidance The repair shop also denied putting oil on the coins. "There were exactly 100,003 pennies, 750 dimes, 2 quarters, a nickel, and his pay stub in the pile," the post states."That is a lot more than what we were legally obligated to give him. Why so much more? We figured that he would have had enough intelligence to just have the pennies counted and exchanged."After the Labor Department filed its complaint, Flaten toldhe would encourage other workers who feel they are wrongly denied their wages to file a complaint.
"They definitely should not be scared to reach out," he told the news outlet."Speak up. Don't be quiet about it. Because if you're quiet about it, it's just going to continue to happen to you and everybody else."
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