LinkedIn Agrees to pay Employees $6 million in Damages

LinkedIn is a popular social network which offers professionals connections that helps them land better jobs. But this week, LinkedIn has agreed to pay almost $6 million to its own employees for damages. Evidently, LinkedIn is paying for violations that were made pertaining to the Fair Labor Standards Act. LinkedIn will pay nearly $3.3 million to workers in unpaid wages and then another $2.5 million in damages which affected 359 workers both current and former. The states represented by LinkedIn's employees include Nebraska, New York, Illinois and California, the state in which the company is located. LinkedIn representatives stated that they have already begun the process of correcting a situation in which they just didn't have the "right tools in place for some employees and their managers to track hours properly." David Weil, the administrator for the Wage and Hour division stated that the company had shown great integrity in cooperating with investigators and had stepped up to make the situation right for workers.