A federal judge has ordered a Peachtree City auto repair shop to pay back wages and overtime to nine workers, including one who had been given his last paycheck in the form of 91,500 pennies.
A OK Walker Luxury Autoworks and its owner Miles Walker must pay $39,934, while complying with federal wage law and removing all references to a former employee from its website, according to the decree issued last week by Judge Timothy Batten of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
In contrast, officials of the U.S. Department of Labor, which brought the action in court said they were pleased with the outcome. As part of the judgment, Walker was ordered to remove from its website all photos and references to Andreas Flaten, a former employee, who worked for about a year at the auto shop.
According to the Department of Labor, Walker paid Flaten’s final wages of $915 by delivering “about 91,500 oil-covered pennies and a pay stub marked with an expletive” to his home. Walker Luxury Autoworks also placed defamatory statements about Flaten on the company’s website.The government found that Walker Luxury Autoworks had violated federal requirements to pay overtime rates for work exceeding 40 hours in a week, a violation covering Flaten and eight other employees.
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