Beck Disaster Recovery Inc. (Beck) will pay $754,578 in overtime back wages to 89 current and former temporary field supervisors to settle U.S. Department of Labor Wage & Hour Division (DOL) charges that that the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by improperly classifying workers as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act and failed to pay the workers for all compensable hours worked. Another of the mounting series of DOL overtime and wage and hour enforcement actions arising from employer misclassification of workers, the Beck settlement and other recently reported DOL enforcement actions demonstrate the significant risks that employers can incur if caught mischaracterizing or underpaying non-exempt employees.
