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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Southern Sanitation Inc.
Penalty: $37,933
Year: 2016
Date: December 21, 2016
Offense Group: employment-related offenses
Primary Offense: wage and hour violation
Secondary Offense: Fair Labor Standards Act
Violation Description: Investigators found the waste management company failed to pay overtime to 32 employees. The employer paid truck drivers and helpers a fixed rate per day, without regard to how many hours they worked. By doing so, Southern Sanitation caused overtime violations when the employees worked more than 40 hours in a work week and the employer failed to pay the required time-and-one-half their regular rate of pay. Additional overtime violations occurred when the employer made deductions illegally for time spent in short rest breaks, which are compensable. and when deductions from pay were made for meal breaks that employees did not take. The employer also failed to maintain required time and payroll records.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Labor Department Wage and Hour Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Georgia
Facility City: Loganville
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.