Employers Must Pay Time and a Half Overtime Wages to Non-Exempt Employees

The United States Department of Labor recently recovered unpaid overtime wages and liquidated damages for more than two dozen employees of a home healthcare agency that were denied time and a half overtime wages for hours that they worked over forty in a workweek.  The DOL found that the home health agency, which operates three different facilities, paid these employees only their regular straight time hours for this overtime work, rather than the time and a half wages that it was obligated to pay.  The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to pay non-exempt overtime employees, such as most hourly employees and even certain salaried employees, time and a half overtime wages for hours that they work over forty in a workweek.  Failure to pay these employees these required wages may result in the offending employer being obligated to pay the unpaid back wages, an equal amount as liquidated damages, and the statutory attorney's fees and costs that the employees' suffer to collect these damages.  See https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240307