Malvern Company Owes 1.9 Million In Back Wages, Damages: Feds

MALVERN, PA — Federal authorities recovered more than $1.9 million in unpaid wages from a Malvern-based direct-marketing company that may have stiffed its workers on pay, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The Department of Labor is seeking current or former employees of American Future Systems — doing business as Progressive Business Publications — who may be owed a portion of $1,916,000 in back wages and liquidated damages recovered by the Department’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD).

American Future Systems is the parent company of Progressive Business Publications, a Malvern-based direct-marketing company that publishes subscription-driven, business-to-business newsletters and other publications.

WHD said about 8,382 Progressive Business Publications employees who worked there from August 9, 2009, through January 3, 2016, at 18 call centers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio, may be eligible for payments.

WHD provides its Workers Owed Wages search tool to assist workers owed back wages.

If your contact information has changed since the period of the investigation, call (267) 514-6072 or email WHDVM.PhiladelphiaPaDOPGR@dol.gov to provide an update.

The recovery is the result of a WHD investigation and U.S. District Court decision that found that American Future Systems failed to pay employees for compensable break time, which sometime brought wages below the federal minimum wage.