LA Garment Contractor Pays $53K for Wage Violations to 21 Workers

After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), ESS Apparel Inc., a Los Angeles garment sewing contractor, will pay $53,876 to 21 employees for violating the minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). WHD said its investigators found ESS Apparel paid employees a…