A 122-Hour Week In Silicon Valley, No Overtime

A Silicon Valley company will pay a total of $43,000 in back pay and penalties, for wage-and-hour violations that a DOL official called “worse than anything that I ever saw in any of those Los Angeles sweatshops.” Electronics for Imaging Inc. is said to have paid below minimum wage and no overtime to workers who had been brought over from India and were being paid in rupees, while putting in as many as 122 hours a week on a special project  The company is not well known, but according to the Associated Press report it had revenues of $728 million last year and paid it’s CEO a package worth nearly $6 million.