LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring a home appliance company to pay $800,000 in back wages and damages to 339 employees after an investigation found the company violated federal wage laws.The judgment comes after the department’s Wage and Hour Division investigated Coway USA Inc. and found that the employer paid employees on a piece-rate basis and failed to pay employees for time spent attending mandatory meetings, picking up and loading supplies, and performing work before and after their shifts, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Investigators also found that Coway did