LinkedIn has paid nearly $6 million in back wages and damages to 359 current and former employees after a US investigation found it had failed to compensate them appropriately for overtime work.
Under a settlement announced by the Labour Department earlier this week the career-focused social network said it paid more than $3.3m in overtime back wages and $2.5m in damages to workers in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York.
“This company has shown a great deal of integrity by fully cooperating with investigators and stepping up to the plate without hesitation to help make workers whole,” said David Weil, administrator of the Labour Department’s Wage and Hour Division.
“We are particularly pleased that LinkedIn also has committed to take positive and practical steps toward securing future compliance.”
Labour Department investigators found that LinkedIn violated the overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labour Standards Act by neglecting to record, account and pay for all hours worked in a workweek.
