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Akal Security, Inc.

Fort Campbell Back Wages

Date: 10/17/2006 (Date of Press Release)

Misconduct Type: Labor

Enforcement Agency: Labor

Contracting Party: Defense - Army

Court Type: Administrative

Amount: $269,954

Disposition: Restitution

Synopsis: Akal Security agreed to pay $269,954 in back wages to 469 employees working at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. The investigation, covering the period July 2004 to July 2006, revealed that Akal failed to compensate guards for the time required to pick up their weapons and report to assigned duty posts and that overtime hours were not calculated correctly.