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Yesterday, the Department of Labor announced that a Pennsylvania federal court awarded $35.8 million in overtime back wages and liquidated damages to 6,000 current and former workers across fifteen facilities in what it claims to be “one of nation’s largest FLSA judgments.”
In its Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, the court began by emphasizing that the Fair Labor Standards Act “mandates that each covered employee receive a ‘fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.’” However, the “overwhelming evidence” confirmed that the defendants had “created and oversaw a system whereby employees who had worked a fair day, and