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By Cornelius Frolik, Staff Writer Updated 11:11 PM Saturday, February 25, 2012

More than 2,000 workers in the Miami Valley in the last five years were not paid more than $2.3 million in wages owed to them by companies that failed to pay overtime or minimum wage or violated other federal compensation laws, according to a Dayton Daily News analysis.

Some legal experts who represent employers said very few wage violations result from companies deliberately cheating their workers out of money.

What is a big reason for wage violations and how much has it cost companies?

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