A US staffing agency has been ordered by a federal judge to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime and interest to 150 workers from 10 care homes in New Jersey.

According to the state’s Courier Post, Broadway Healthcare Management and its owner Michael Konig was found by the US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division to have cheated workers out of overtime pay in a 2008 investigation.

The firm was ordered to pay back workers but a recent investigation found it had failed to do so and had continued to underpay. 

This resulted in a contempt finding and an order to pay the workers US$636.4k (£420.7k) in back wages, plus $97.4k in legal and investigative costs.