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B.J.'s Enterprises to pay workers $117,468 in back overtime wages.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004

By Marcelene Edwards, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 12--B.J.'s Enterprises Inc. has agreed to pay 154 of its employees a total of $117,468 in back wages for unpaid overtime, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

An investigation by the department's Wage and Hour Division in Seattle showed that the employer failed to pay game operators, food service employees and cashiers at a rate of 1.5 times their regular pay for more than 40 hours of work in a week.

The investigation covered May 2002 through May 2004.

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