SAN DIEGO – Official merchandise for artists including the Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Willie Nelson or Ariana Grande may have been made by workers at a San Diego silk-screening contractor who denied them the wages they earned for their work.
An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has concluded that King Graphics in San Diego, a contractor for numerous entertainment merchandise manufacturers, shortchanged workers of wages by failing to pay overtime at time and one-half the required rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek, a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Under the FLSA’s “hot goods” provision, the department can seek a court order to prevent the interstate shipment of goods that were produced in violation of the minimum wage, overtime, or child labor provisions of the FLSA. The order can apply not only to the employer who produced the goods but to anyone in possession of the goods. King Graphics agreed to pay $10,473 to lift the hot goods hold.
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