26
Nov
The U.S. Department of Labor said Nov. 19 that it has retrieved more than $1.4 million owed to 36 Mexican engineers working for National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO), a General Dynamics Corp. subsidiary in San Diego. The department said the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act after its Wage and Hour Division discovered that NASSCO used the L-1B visa program to bring these engineers from a General Dynamics subsidiary in Mexicali, Mexico, and paid them in pesos at Mexican pay rates. The engineers, who work an average of 42 hours or more a week, were brought to San…
