Georgians, including nearly 200 in Hall Co., due millions in back pay

Overtime pay is coming for Georgia workers, nearly 200 of them in Hall County.

Georgia News Network reports more than 7,000 are owed back wages totaling over two million dollars.

The U.S. Department of Labor will reportedly hold onto wages you are owed for up to three-years.  

Here’s a county-by-county breakdown of the amount owed in each county and the number of affected workers:
 

  • Appling: $89,179 owed to 110 workers
  • Atkinson: $6,219 owed to 360 workers
  • Baldwin: $30,278 owed to 14 workers
  • Bartow: $990 owed to 4 workers
  • Ben Hill: $3,262 owed to 2 workers
  • Bibb: $32,629 owed to 12 workers
  • Bullock: $1,902 owed to 14 workers
  • Butts: $1,733 owed to 16 workers
  • Carroll: $2,658 owed to 4 workers
  • Chatham: $37,676 owed to 93 workers
  • Cherokee: $19,185 owed to 38 workers
  • Clarke: $86,831 owed to 70 workers
  • Clayton: $114,065 owed to 199 workers
  • Clinch: $17,883 owed to 39 workers
  • Cobb: $82,240 owed to 216 workers
  • Colquitt: $327,477 owed to 816 workers
  • Columbia: $2,039 owed to 3 workers
  • Cook: $5,737 owed to 22 workers
  • Dawson: $1,614 owed to 1 worker
  • Decatur: $1,434 owed to 3 workers
  • DeKalb: $200,058 owed to 361 workers
  • Dooly: $1,191 owed to 9 workers
  • Dougherty: $16,495 owed to 143 workers
  • Douglas: $15,132 owed to 32 workers
  • Early: $30,056 owed to 1,446 workers
  • Elbert: $103 owed to 1 worker
  • Fayette: $6,527 owed to 2 workers
  • Forsyth: $35,945 owed to 121 workers
  • Franklin: $119,393 owed to 41 workers
  • Fulton: $300,138 owed to 740 workers
  • Glynn: $925 owed to 9 workers
  • Gwinnett:: $308,391 owed to 449 workers
  • Habersham: $1,177 owed to 2 workers
  • Hall: $17,149 owed to 178 workers
  • Henry: $11,330 owed to 35 workers
  • Houston: $4,796 owed to 34 workers
  • Jeff Davis: $12,726 owed to 37 workers
  • Laurens: $2,052 owed to 37 workers
  • Liberty: $7,761 owed to 7 workers
  • Lowndes: $53,685 owed to 240 workers
  • Muscogee: $83,492 owed to 115 workers
  • Newton: $610 owed to 1 worker
  • Oconee: $13,306 owed to 17 workers
  • Paulding: $268 owed to 6 workers
  • Peach: $6,268 owed to 25 workers
  • Pickens: $396 owed to 3 workers
  • Polk: $2,046 owed to 12 workers
  • Putnam: $3,961 owed to 5 workers
  • Rabun: $856 owed to 8 workers
  • Richmond: $1,365 owed to 3 workers
  • Rockdale: $15,496 owed to 23 workers
  • Tattnall: $13,528 owed to 69 workers
  • Terrell: $44 owed to 1 worker
  • Thomas: $480 owed to 2 workers
  • Tift: $5,596 owed to 41 workers
  • Toombs: $51,179 owed to 598 workers
  • Troup: $17,472 owed to 234 workers
  • Walton: $4,929 owed to 6 workers
  • Ware: $162 owed to 2 workers