Beyond Yoga Contractors to Pay $1 Million in DOL Wage Settlement

Over 160 workers will receive more than $1 million in back wages and damages after the US Labor Department found four garment contractors of Beyond Yoga illegally denied employees overtime pay, according to the agency on Wednesday.

It’s the DOL’s “largest settlement to date for California garment workers,” the agency said.

Though they worked an average of 52 hours per week, the Los Angeles contractors willfully failed to pay overtime when work time exceeded 40 hours, the department said. The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division said it also found that the contractors falsified payroll records and issued fake checks to ...