The U.S. Department of Labor is suing the auto repair shop that made headlines last year by paying a former employee his final paycheck in pennies.
The suit, filed Dec. 30 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, alleges that A OK Walker Autoworks and its owner Miles Walker, discriminated against Andreas Flaten because he had called the Department of Labor to report not receiving his last paycheck.
"Within hours of learning that Mr. Flaten had complained to [the Wage and Hour Division] about not receiving his last paycheck, defendants decided to pay Mr. Flaten in pennies," the suit alleged.
In March of last year, Flaten found 91,500 pennies in his driveway, according to the suit. "Defendants left a copy of Mr. Flaten’s paycheck with an expletive written on the outside."
The Department of Labor also found that A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City had failed to pay employees for overtime work since at least April of 2019.
The suit also alleged that A OK Walker Autoworks failed "to make, keep and preserve adequate and accurate records of the persons employed and of the wages, hours and other conditions and practices of employment maintained by them," which is required by the Department of Labor.
A OK Walker Autoworks did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
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