FREMONT (AP) — A Silicon Valley company is paying more than $43,000 in back wages and penalties after labor regulators found eight employees brought from India were grossly underpaid and overworked while assigned to a special project in the U.S. The probe announced this week by the U.S Department of Labor uncovered several egregious violations at Electronics for Imaging Inc., a printing technology specialist that generated revenue of $728 million last year, when the misconduct occurred. Among other things, Electronics for Imaging paid the eight workers far below California’s required minimum wage — $8 per hour at the time — while they helped the company move its headquarters from Foster City, California, to Fremont, California, during a three-month period, according to the Labor Department. While assigned to the project, some of the Indian workers logged as many as 122 hours in a week without being paid overtime.
Firm fined for underpaying workers