The U.S. Labor Department paid out $1.04 million to 3,466 Utah workers in the last fiscal year because 238 employers failed to pay the required minimum wage or overtime.
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Joe Villarreal, regional administrator of the department's Wage and Hour Division in Dallas, said, "The findings are a direct result of the department's continuing commitment to protect workers at the low end of the wage scale."The department disbursed $388,033 to 1,135 Salt Lake County workers; $344,562 to 1,553 Utah County employees; $123,802 to 235 Davis County employees; $76,383 to 192 Weber County workers; and $37,613 to 90 Cache County workers. The lowest total was $204 returned to one Wasatch County worker.