US Department of Labor recovers $98K in back wages, damages for 32 security guards Muskegon Heights’ city government misclassified

MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI – A federal investigation has recovered $98,316 in back wages and liquidated damages for 32 security guards who the Muskegon Heights Housing Commission failed to pay overtime wages because the Michigan employer misclassified them as independent contractors.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the commission paid the guards at Parkside Manor and Columbia Court straight time rates for all hours worked when, as employees, they should have received overtime wages for hours over 40 in a workweek . . .