Florida Roofing Contractor Pays $31K in Back Wages After Illegally Denying Overtime
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Florida roofing contractor is paying $31,673 in back wages for 30 workers after violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and not paying employees from a drug recovery program what they were owed.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division, investigations into Perry Roofing Inc. — which operates as Perry Roofing Contractors — found the employer violated overtime and recordkeeping requirements of the FLSA. The division determined that Perry Roofing failed to include production-related and profit-sharing bonuses in the calculation when determining workers’ overtime rates. By doing so, the employer paid workers less for their overtime hours than the law requires. Perry Roofing also failed to record start and stop times for workers paid by piece-rate.