Nucor-Yamato Steel Co. Miscalculated Production Workers’ OT Pay, Lawsuit Alleges

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Nucor-Yamato Steel Company and Nucor Corporation are the defendants in a proposed class and collective action filed by a former production worker who claims the companies have failed to pay proper overtime wages within the last three years.

According to the suit, the plaintiff and similarly situated production workers were paid non-discretionary cash awards and bonuses on a regular basis in addition to their standard hourly pay. While production workers were paid time-and-a-half wages for hours worked past 40 each week, the lawsuit alleges the defendants miscalculated this overtime pay by failing to account for bonuses and cash awards in the workers’ regular hourly pay rates. The case argues that non-discretionary bonuses “must be totaled in with other earnings to determine the regular rate on which overtime pay must be based."