Compliance with state and federal wage-hour laws should always be at the forefront of your employment-law related concerns, but some recent news from the industry served to heighten that reality when it was announced that a large facility services company has agreed to pay a $600,000 settlement in a wage-hour lawsuit in California.

If approved by the federal judge overseeing the litigation, the settlement will bring an end to a lawsuit that originally was filed in 2016 and that involved 187 of the company’s laundry workers who alleged a variety of wage-hour related claims under federal and state law, including ...