While records at Journey Through Life Care Services LLC showed the Maumee healthcare service provider paid employees legally required state minimum wage plus time-and-a-half for overtime, federal investigators found the employer regularly failed to pay its employees overtime wages — sometimes paying a mere 50 cents per hour more for hours over 40 in a workweek. Following an investigation by the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, Journey Through Life Care Services has paid a total of $92,275 to 61 direct support care employees in owed overtime back wages and agreed to future compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime and recordkeeping provisions. The division determined the employer violated the FLSA’s overtime wage requirements by generally paying workers straight time for all hours worked, including hours over 40 in a workweek.
