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FRANKLIN, TN – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $1,730,598 in back wages for 1,666 workers after an investigation found that a multi-trade contractor failed to pay them their full wages, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Divisiondiscovered that The State Group Industrial (USA) Ltd. Inc. violated the FLSA’s overtime provisions when it did not include incentive bonuses in the regular rate of pay for 1,666 hourly employees working at the Ford Motor Co.’s electric vehicle and battery manufacturing campus in Stanton, Tennessee. As a result, employees were not paid the