Wage and Hour Division (WHD)

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SEATTLE -- The U.S. Labor Department today announced that Advanced Digital Information Corporation, producer of computer storage devices and tape libraries in Redmond, Wash., has paid 55 of its employees a total of $73,286 in back wages for unpaid overtime compensation as required under federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

According to George Friday, deputy regional administrator for the Wage Hour Division in San Francisco, the firm failed to record the hours worked by salaried, non-exempt employees, primarily customer sales associates, and failed to pay them overtime when they worked over 40 hours in one workweek.

Other job categories include order management specialist, service partner contract administrator, sales operations specialist and payroll manager.

The department's investigation covered the period from March 1, 2002, until March 1, 2004.

Under the FLSA, employers must pay covered workers at a rate of at least one and one-half times their regular rate of pay after 40 hours in a workweek and must maintain accurate records about employees, their hours worked and their wages earned.

The WHD recovered more than $212 million in back wages in fiscal year (FY) 2003, a 21 percent increase over the record setting amount of FY 2002. Average days to resolve a complaint decreased in FY 2003 from 129 days to 108 days. WHD assessed employers nearly $10 million in civil money penalties in FY 2003.

For more information about the FLSA, call the Wage Hour District Office at 206-398-8039 or the department's toll-free help line at 1-866-4USWAGE (1-866-487-9243). Information is also available at www.wagehour.dol.gov.

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