Southern California Roofing Contractor Pays $616,000 to Workers After Overtime Violations
WEST COVINA, Calif. —An Orange County roofing company learned recently that failing to comply with federal wage and hour laws can be costly. A recent U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation of Saddleback Roofing Inc. found the company’s owner regularly failed to pay workers required overtime.
According to a release from the Department of Labor, the violations resulted from a variety of pay practices, including the employer’s failure to count travel time between job sites and time spent loading and unloading materials as work time. When this unpaid time occurred in workweeks longer than 40 hours, it triggered overtime violations.