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Show Workers to get back wages Employers agreed to restore '$674,963 in wage underpayments to 2,428 Utah workers for violations of minimum wage, overtime, equal pay or age discrimination provisions of federal labor standards laws in fiscal 1980. Doyle Loveridge, Regional Administrator for the U.S. Labor Department's Employment Em-ployment Standards Administration (ESA) in Denver announced enforcement en-forcement results recently. "These substantial "findings result from the department's continuing commitment to workers and protection of their rights," Loveridge said. "The minimum wage law has continued to protect workers at the low end of the wage scale by providing a minimum standard of living and also by preventing these workers from shouldering an unfair burden in the fight against inflation." In the six-state Rocky Mountain region a total of $2,386,540 was restored to 14,311 workers, Loveridge said. On Jan. 1, 1981 the minimum wage increased in-creased from $3.10 to $3.35 per hour affecting approximately 160,000 workers in the six-state region. Loren Gilbert, Assistant Regional Administrator Ad-ministrator for ESA's Wage-Hour Division, said the past fiscal year's enforcement efforts in the region disclosed a total of $4,474,784 in wage underpayments due to 21,727 workers. Violations of the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) accounted lor the bulk of underpayments un-derpayments disclosed-$1,215,626 disclosed-$1,215,626 due 10,224 workers in minimum wage underpayments and $2,948,156 due 12,625 workers in overtime underpayments. |