3M to return nearly $1M in back wages to employees after unauthorized paycheck deductions

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3M to return nearly $1M in back wages to employees after unauthorized paycheck deductions

Maplewood-based 3M overpaid thousands of employees and then violated state law by making deductions from their pay without first obtaining a voluntary written authorization, according to the Minnesota attorney general’s office. Now the company will have to pay back nearly 1,700 current and former employees more than $961,000 in back wages under a settlement reached last month and filed Thursday in Ramsey County District Court. The settlement doc…