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Company: Tifton Peanut Co. Inc.
Penalty: $55,323
Year: 2017
Date: January 9, 2017
Offense Group: employment-related offenses
Primary Offense: wage and hour violation
Secondary Offense: Fair Labor Standards Act
Violation Description: Investigators found the peanut processing company paid 46 employees straight time for all the hours that they worked, when the FLSA requires overtime payment at time-and-one-half their regular rates of pay for all hours worked beyond 40 in a work week. During the employer's busy season, employees who typically worked at the firm's primary location also performed work at a secondary location. Tifton Peanut failed to include any hours employees worked at the second work site when calculating overtime wages. The employer also failed to maintain required time and payroll records.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Labor Department Wage and Hour Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Georgia
Facility City: Tifton
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