A Texas farm owned by one of the US' biggest potato growers paid over $1.3 million in back wages to workers after denying them overtime pay
by the Department of Labor found it failed to pay its workers a premium for overtime hours.
Idaho-headquartered Blaine Larsen, often known as Larsen Farms, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by not paying almost 500 warehouse staff time-and-a-half when they worked more than 40 hours a week, the DOL said. The department said that it had recovered almost $1.35 million in back wages for the warehouse workers.
The farm additionally failed to properly report an outbreak of COVID-19, violating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration'sLarsen Farms didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside of regular working hours.
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