SYLMAR : $60,000 to Be Paid in Back Overtime
A Sylmar landscape firm has agreed to pay 126 of its workers a total of $60,000 in back overtime pay to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor, labor officials said Thursday.
Cacho Landscape Maintenance Co. Inc. neither denied nor admitted wrongdoing when it agreed to the consent judgment Wednesday, which was entered in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, said Labor Department spokesman Joe Kirkbride.
The company, located at 15250 Foothill Blvd., also promised not to violate the terms of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, which requires that workers be paid overtime for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek.
The 126 landscape workers will receive back pay earned from Feb. 1, 1990, to Feb. 29, 1992. Individual workers will receive from $10 to more than $2,100 apiece, Kirkbride said.
Company President Victor Cacho was not available for comment.
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