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CHARLOTTE, N.C. --

Mooresville-based Details Inc. has agreed to pay $100,315 in back overtime wages to 117 employees after the U.S. Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division determined the company had violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

“This employer failed to properly pay overtime to employees who worked across the country installing equipment in home improvement stores that had not yet opened for business,” said John Blaine, the Wage and Hour Division’s district director in Charlotte.

Wage and Hour investigators determined that from April 2004 to April 2006 Details Inc. paid workers on a semi-monthly basis and chose that calculation as the basis for occasional overtime payments rather than paying overtime after 40 hours per week as prescribed by law. In addition, field employees were not paid for the time spent traveling from one job site to the next.

The FLSA requires employers to pay covered non-exempt workers one-and-one half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a single work week. Employers must also compensate workers for time spent traveling from one job site to another during a work day.

The company cooperated with investigators and agreed to future compliance with the law and to maintain accurate records of employees’ wages, hours and other conditions of employment.

The Wage and Hour Division concluded 31,987 compliance actions in fiscal year 2006 and recovered more than $171 million in back wages for more than 246,000 employees. Back-wage collections last year represent a 30 percent increase over back wages collected in fiscal year 2001. The number of workers receiving back wages has increased by 14 percent since fiscal year 2001.

For more information about the FLSA and other laws administered by the Wage and Hour Division, call the department’s toll-free help line at 1 (866) 4US-WAGE (487-9243); visit the Internet at www.wagehour.dol.gov; or contact Wage and Hour Division office in Charlotte in the Mart Office Building, 800 Briar Creek Rd., Suite CC-412; phone: (704) 344-6302.

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