the two-year statute of limitations to bar the state law claims of Plaintiffs Karen Angus, Diane Ciprian, Jason Hoane, Christopher Peira-no, and Barbara Shafer, as well as the state law claims of Eric Heberle based on paychecks he received prior to February 1, 2000. E. Liquidated Damages NHC asserts that, even if it is liable to the Plaintiffs for overtime compensation under the FLSA, it is not hable for liquidated damages. The FLSA provides for liquidated damages in an amount equal to the plaintiffs actual damages. 29 U.S.C. § 216(b). The liquidated damages are intended to compensate the plaintiff for the loss he suffered by not being paid the wages he was owed in a timely manner; they are not intended to punish the employer. McClanahan v. Mathews, 440 F.2d 320, 322-23 (6th Cir.1971) (<HOLDING>) (quoting Overnight Motor Co. v. Missel, 316
holding that punitive damages are not allowed under the flsa recognizing that liquidated damages under the flsa  are compensation not a penalty or punishment  holding under flsa holding that liquidated damages under the adea are intended to punish and deter while contrasting them to the legislative purpose of liquidated damages under the fsla holding that because liquidated damages under the adea are punitive in nature a jurys award of state punitive damages and adea liquidated damages constitutes a double recovery and therefore reducing the total recovery by the amount of the liquidated damages award