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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Levi's Ordered to pay up $1 million in overtime wages


Levi Strauss to pay $1 million in overtime

San Francisco Business Times - by Steven E.F. Brown

Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 11:40am PDT

Levi's profit rose 28 percent in Q4

Levi's income up 28 percent in Q4

Jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co. will pay $1,011,413 in overtime back wages to 596 people after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found it violated the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Labor Department’s San Francisco district office found that Levi “misclassified several groups of workers, including assistant store managers of newly acquired stores, as exempt from overtime,” the department said. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said such mistakes have “serious and adverse consequences for employees, as well as for corporations.”

Assistant store managers were thus required to work off the clock during late night closings and in the morning when they opened early. They also had to fill in without extra pay when stores were short of staff. Some administrative workers at Levi’s San Francisco headquarters were also misclassified as exempt from overtime. The investigation covered a two year period, the department said.
Levi has agreed to improve its timekeeping system for its workers as part of this deal.

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