San Francisco, CALevi Strauss & Co. recently agreed to pay more than $1 million in overtime pay for approximately 600 workers after the US Department of Labor found that the company had been in violation of the California labor code.
According to Reuters, the Labor Department found that the jeans manufacturer had not recorded all of the hours that its employees had worked in its payroll system. As a result, the company mistakenly said that some workers were exempt from overtime, according to an investigation by the Labor Department's San Francisco district office.
"The federal rules governing the employee classification process are complex and it's common for companies to have issues with misclassification," a spokesperson for the company told the news provider.
The spokesperson added that Levi Strauss had worked with the department to review the information and answer questions that arose during the investigation.
A statement from the Labor Department said that the investigation examined the back wages for time worked during a span of two years, according to the news source.