Washington, DCInvestigators in the Golden State have discovered a number of alleged California labor law violations at a massive warehouse that handles Walmart products, officials from the state told the Huffington Post.
The warehouse, located in Riverside County, California, is operated by Walmart contractor Schneider Logistics and handles a significant amount of the corporation's goods in the state.
The team of investigators from the labor department found that two of the temporary staffing agencies who supplied the manual laborers had not been keeping track of how much money workers were owed, according to the news outlet.
One of the firms, Impact Logistics Inc., was issued a $499,000 fine for not providing itemized wage statements to the workers who were in charge of unloading and loading the products from the corporate giant. The agency was also hit with a warning for failing to maintain time records.
Another staffing agency, Premier Warehousing Ventures, was issued a similar warning, the Post reported. The two agencies supplied more than 200 workers to the site.
Following the issuance of the warning a spokesman for Impact Logistics issued a statement.
"It is our utmost goal to be one hundred percent compliant with the state's laws concerning wage requirements for employees, and we consider our people to be our company's greatest asset," the individual noted.
Jim Pittman, the chief operating officer for Premier Warehousing Ventures, told the Post that the company plans on proving that it was in compliance with the state's labor law.
"My employees mean the world to me," Pittman said. "It is our intent to abide by all of the labor laws whether it be in California or the other states we work in."
None of the employees who worked in the warehouse work for Walmart directly, but the products that are loaded and unloaded in that location were headed for the shelves in the company's stores, according to the news source.
Several employees voiced their displeasure with the work conditions that existed at these sites, as they noted the lack of breaks and long hours that were required, the North County Times reported.
"I went 28 consecutive days without a day off," Juan Chavez, speaking through a Spanish interpreter, told the news source. "There were no lunch breaks, no rest breaks."