BY ANTHONY MCAULEY
MAY 21, 2019 – 2:06 PM
The U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday it had forced a Florida-based contractor, Gomez Drywall Construction Inc., to pay 108 Louisiana-based workers nearly $180,000 in back pay for breaking federal rules on overtime compensation.
The Department of Labor said the action followed an investigation into claims Gomez misclassified workers as independent contractors and subsequently failed to pay them overtime when they worked more than 40 hours in a workweek, a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.