In San Jose, California, the U.S. Department of Labor looked into Intuit, a provider of payroll and financial software headquartered in Silicon Valley. They found that in certain cases Intuit wasn’t keeping accurate pay records and failed to pay for some work hours, including time spent on required training. This meant that over 2,500 employees didn’t get paid for overtime, which came to more than $555,000 altogether.

The Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor said that Intuit not paying the right amount for overtime was against the Fair Labor Standards Act. This law protects workers all over the United States.

Francisco Ocampo, who is in charge of the Wage and Hour Division in San Jose, said he was happy that Intuit’s lawyers worked with the U.S. Department of Labor to fix the problem quickly after they learned about it.

The Wage and Hour Division’s work to get back overtime pay will help 2,607 Intuit employees.

Intuit is a global financial technology company that serves about 100 million customers worldwide with products like TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp. The company is based in Mountain View and has about 18,000 employees in 19 offices in eight different countries.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) says that most workers in the U.S. must be paid overtime at a rate of at least time and a half their regular pay for any hours worked over 40 in a week. The Wage and Hour Division has more information about workers’ rights, including a tool that people can use to find out if they may be owed back wages.