Shoreline Building Services LLC of St. Joseph and owner Crystal Middleton will be paying 11 employees $10,000 in back wages and damages. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Michigan issued a consent judgment resolving overtime violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The janitorial services company was found to have violated the FLSA by not paying workers overtime when they worked more than 40 hours in a week. Instead, the employer paid overtime based upon a two-week or longer pay period. Shoreline Building Services also calculated overtime incorrectly for employees who worked in multiple positions at different rates of pay during a pay period. Additional violations resulted when the employer failed to record or pay for time employees spent traveling between work sites during the workday.
The U.S. Department of Labor released information on the case December 16, as the judgment happened October 31.
