WAYNESBORO, Miss. -- A Waynesboro, Miss., company that operates 43 Clark Oil Co. convenience stores in Mississippi and Alabama will pay back overtime wages to 160 employees, said the Associated Press.
The overtime pay owed for the periodApril 2003 to April 2005comes to $44,378, said Oliver Peebles III, district director for the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage & Hour Division in Birmingham, Ala.
Peebles said assistant managers had been erroneously classified as exempt from the overtime provisions of federal law. He said the [image-nocss] company had corrected the error, but still had not paid the overtime. He said overtime also was not paid to cashiers at some stores.
He said the company cooperated with the Labor Department and agreed to pay the overtime owed.
Peebles added that the company also agreed to pay a $10,560 fine for allowing 16- and 17-year-old workers to clean and operate a power-driven commercial dough mixer and a meat slicer. Peebles said minors under 18 are prohibited from operating such machinery.
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