The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry filed suit against a former Mars delivery business for allegedly not paying 25 employees for their last week of employment in July.

The department’s bureau of labor law compliance filed the suit Thursday, Dec. 4, in Butler County Common Pleas Court against Last Mile Delivery Service, which had an office in Mars and operated out of a garage in Sewickley, and Christopher Novak, identified in the suit as an officer and agent, on behalf of 25 former employees, including two from Butler County.

The suit seeks $56,492 in wages, overtime wages, wages for agreed upon time off and penalties. The individual claims from the former employees range from about $85 to more than $5,000.

One of the former employees from the county, who did not wish to be

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