Collision Repair Facility Paying Over $67,000 in Back Wages and Damages Following Department of Labor Investigation

Resolves overtime violations of Fair Labor Standards Act.

After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Boehm Family Enterprises LLC – doing business as McElwain Brothers Paint and Collision in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania – has paid $33,731 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages for a total of $67,462 to 12 mechanics and painters to resolve violations of the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

WHD investigators found that Boehm Family Enterprises LLC violated the FLSA by incorrectly classifying the mechanics and painters as exempt from the law’s