LinkedIn Corp said Monday it would pay more than $6 million in overtime and damages to 359 current and former employees under the terms of a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor, according to published reports.
The business social media site violated U.S. wage laws, the Labor Department said, failing to properly compensate workers for overtime hours.
LinkedIn agreed to pay more than $3.3 million in retroactive overtime wages and more than $2.5 million in damages to workers in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York.
David Weil, the administrator of the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division, said in a statement that LinkedIn 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.”
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