A Connecticut home health care provider will have to pay $126,000 in back pay after the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) found the company did not comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The DOL reported that as a result of investigation they concluded that New London-based Care at Home proprietors Daniel Karp and Suzanne Karp failed to pay employees overtime.

Regional Solicitor of Labor Maia Fisher in Boston said that not paying employees overtime will not be tolerated.

“The defendants’ failure to pay their workers properly and their repeated refusal to obey court orders are unacceptable and will not be tolerated," Fisher said. "The U.S. Department of Labor will not only pursue wages owed to employees up to the point of obtaining a judgment, but also will take appropriate legal steps, when warranted, to hold employers in contempt and seize their assets to satisfy those judgments."

The U.S. Marshals Service seized the funds and liquidated damages, along with $22,413 in attorney’s fees by the owners of Care at Home, according to a news release.

The DOL reported the Karps did not pay overtime to employees at the home health care facility, along with taking deductions for food and lodging from employees’ paychecks.