TRENTON – The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s Wage and Hour Compliance Division has barred two public works contractors from doing business in the state for violations outside the state’s prevailing wage law, heralding a tough and progressive new enforcement approach against dishonest contractors. The cases against drywall contractor P& B Partitions…Read More…

TRENTON – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that an Ocean County construction contractor pleaded guilty today to purposely not paying prevailing wages on a government contract valued over $75,000. As part of his criminal activity, the contractor falsified payroll records for the public contract to cover up the fact that he paid most of…Read More…

A worker who fractured several vertebrae in an on-the-job fall was awarded $7.68 million on Jan. 15 in Schultz v. Atlas Homes LLC. The jury’s apportionment of some liability to the plaintiff reduced the sum, though the plaintiff now is seeking interest, fees and costs. According to the plaintiff’s lawyer and electronic court documents, on…Read More…

News Release U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR INVESTIGATION RESULTS IN $158,139 IN BACK WAGES AND DAMAGES FOR 50 EMPLOYEES ON MASSACHUSETTS CONSTRUCTION PROJECT BOSTON, MA – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ordered P & B Partitions Inc….Read More…

-News Release- TRENTON – The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development and the U.S Department of Labor pledged a historic new level of cooperation to protect New Jersey’s economy by signing an agreement Friday to work together to end illegal employee misclassification. By misclassifying workers as independent contractors – workers who file 1099s,…Read More…

The California Department of Industrial Relations announced Tuesday that the state’s Labor Commissioner’s Office has issued wage theft violation citations in the amount of $1.9 million to Fullerton, California-based Fullerton Pacific Interiors for failure to fully pay 476 employees on 26 southern California construction projects from August 2014 to June 2016. Investigators found that Fullerton…Read More…

For years, various reports have indicated that the contract workforce is growing rapidly in the U.S. On Thursday, the Labor Department poured a bucket of cold water on that notion. It released a report showing contract workers make up a slightly smaller share of the workforce than the last time the survey was done 13…Read More…

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TOMS RIVER – A Little Egg Harbor couple admitted Tuesday to stealing more than $1.4 million from more than 20 victims of superstorm Sandy who hired them to fix their homes. They used the money to gamble at seven Atlantic City casinos and buy a $17,000 diamond ring and other luxury goods, all the while…Read More…

A construction worker who suffered spinal injuries after a fall at a building under construction settled his Middlesex County suit, Pinho v. Meridia Metro Hackensack, for $1.265 million on March 21.Read More…