Investigation leads a Boise-area employer to pay thousands of dollars to workers
A federal agency says its investigation led a Meridian company to pay four workers tens of thousands of dollars in past unpaid overtime and travel time to and from job sites.
Intermountain Concrete Polishing, which polishes concrete floors, will pay $47,676 to four employees for violating the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the U.S. Labor Department said.
Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found that Intermountain paid employees straight-time rates for all the hours that they worked, including those that exceeded 40 hours in a workweek. The company also failed to record or pay employees for travel time when they traveled to work sites several hours away from their homes. Intermountain also violated the Fair Labor Standards Act’s recordkeeping requirements, the department said.
“Employees must receive all the wages they have legally earned, including overtime, and must be paid for all the hours that they have worked,” Wage and Hour District Director Thomas Silva, in Portland, said in a Jan. 2 news release. “Investigations like this ensure that employees get paid and that employers compete on a level playing field.”
