Employees for Russell Stover Candies Inc. filed a federal wage-and-hour lawsuit against the company, saying they were intentionally mislabeled as sales representatives and none of them “has ever been paid overtime.”

Russell Stover Candies Inc., based in Missouri, employs about 5,000 people, including more than 170 sales representatives, the complaint said. The “overwhelming majority” of its candy is delivered to retailers like Walmart and grocery stores.

Nine workers said Russell Stover “misnamed them as ‘sales representatives,’” making them exempt from overtime, when none of them worked primarily in sales, as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Most of the company’s sales are performed or originate from employees other than the plaintiffs, the court filing said.

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New York-based KGB USA Inc. was ordered to pay $1.3 million to nearly 15,000 current and former employees, the U.S. Department of Labor announced this morning in a news release.

The company’s business process outsourcing headquarters is at 3864 Courtney St. in Hanover Township, according to the company’s website. That address is cited in  giving the court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania jurisdiction in the case, according to court papers.

U.S. District Judge James Knoll Gardner said in a Feb. 7 consent decree that the company misclassified home workers, who were hired to respond to text messages from customers, as independent contractors, the Labor Department reports. The workers were paid a piece rate instead of $7.25 an hour, an investigation of the department’s Wage and Hour Division revealed…

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The company operates the Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Tustin Hospital, Newport Specialty Hospital, Bellflower Medical Center and Anaheim General Hospital.

All of the locations were cited except the Newport Beach facility.

“Employers have an obligation to pay workers the wages they’ve earned,” said Christine Baker, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. “Forcing employees to wait for payment or depriving them of promised benefits are illegal acts and cause unacceptable hardship.”

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(Prez)
I figured it out
I figured it out
With a pencil and a pad I figured it out!
Seven and a half cents doesn’t buy a hell of a lot,
Seven and a half cents doesn’t mean a thing!
But give it to me every hour,
Forty hours every week,
And that’s enough for me to be living like a king!
I figured it out

(chorus)
He figured it out!

(Prez)
I figured it out

(Chorus)
He figured it out!

(Prez)
With a pencil and a pad I figured it out!
Only five years from today!
Only five years from today!
I can see it all before me!
Only five years from today!
Five years! Let’s see..thats 260 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at time
and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $852.74!
That’s enough for me to get
An automatic washing machine,
A years supply of gasoline,
Carpeting for the living room,
A vacuum instead of a blasted broom,
Not to mention a forty inch television set!

(Chorus)
So! Although!
Seven and a half cents doesn’t buy a hell of a lot,
Seven and a half cents doesn’t mean a thing!
But give it to me every hour,
Forty hours every week,
And that’s enough for me to be living like a king!

(Babe)
I figured it out

(Chorus)
She figured it out!

(Babe)
I figured it out!

(Chorus)
She figured it out!

(Babe)
Only ten years from today,
Only ten years from today,
I can see it, clear as daylight,
Only ten years from today!
Ten years! Let’s see..thats 520 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at time
and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $1705.48!
That’s enough for me to buy
A trip to France across the seas,
A motorboat and water skis,
Maybe even a foregian car,
A charge account at the corner bar,
Not to mention a scrabble board with letters made of gold!

(Chorus)
So! Although!
Seven and a half cents doesn’t buy a hell of a lot,
Seven and a half cents doesn’t mean a thing!
But give it to me every hour,
Forty hours every week,
And that’s enough for me to be living like a king!

(Babe and Prez)
We figured it out!

(Chorus)
They figured it out!
They figured it out!

(Babe and Prez)
We figured it out!

(All)
With a pencil and a pad they figured it out

(Babe)
Only twenty years from today

(Prez)
Only twenty years from today

(Babe)
I can see it like a vision

(All)
Only twenty years from today

(Prez and Babe)
Twenty years! Let’s see..thats 1040 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at
time and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $3411.96!
Wow!

(Prez)
That’s enough for me to be
A sultan in a taj mahal
In every room a different doll!

(Babe)
I’ll have myself a buying spree,
I’ll buy a pajama factory,
Then I could end up having old man Hasler work for me!

(Chorus)
So! Although!
Seven and a half cents doesn’t buy a hell of a lot,
Seven and a half cents doesn’t mean a thing!
But give it to me every hour,
Forty hours every week,
And that’s enough for me to be living like a king!

The Pajama Game (1954 Original Broadway Cast)
Music by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
Lyrics by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
Book by George Abbott & Richard Bissell