FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. - A decision has been made in the case involving the Fayetteville man who was given 91,500 oil-covered pennies in January 2021 as his final paycheck by the owner of Peachtree City auto repair shop A OK Walker Autoworks.
The former employee named Andreas Flaten contacted the Department of Labor when Miles Walker refused to give him a final payucheck. The Wage and Hour Division contacted Walker. The shop owner then dumped the thousands of pennies in the employee's driveway along with a pay stub marked with an expletive and published defamatory statement about the former employee on the company's website.
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The US Department of Labor announced a lawsuit against Miles Walker in January 2022.
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It was determined Walker violated the FLSA’s overtime provisions by paying the complainant and other employees straight-time rates for all hours worked, including for hours over 40 in a workweek when an overtime rate-of-pay was legally required.
The court has now ordered the Walker to pay nine former employees $39,934 in back wages and damages and has forbidding the owner from additional discrimination and retaliation against any employee.
The court ordered the auto shop operator to pay $39,934, representing back wages owed and an equal amount in liquidated damages, to nine workers....
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