Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation today creating a Worker Protection Unit within the Office of the Attorney General which will protect Illinois workers from wage theft and other unlawful employment practices. “When Illinoisans put in a hard day’s work, they deserve to be compensated fairly and treated with dignity, and this new Worker Protection Unit…Read More…

Largest Single Wage Recovery in DOL’s 115-Year History Employer Pleads Guilty to Theft of Wages, Convicted of Grand Larceny AGL Industries Will Return Stolen Wages to 499 Workers Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that a joint investigation between the New York State Department of Labor and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Construction Fraud Task Force…Read More…

TRENTON – Ten New Jersey laborers will be paid $170,000 in back wages after investigators found Tri County Real Estate Co. did not pay workers the legally required prevailing wage on a construction project at the Trenton East/West Senior Apartments. “Public contracting is not a right – it is a privilege,” said Labor Commissioner Robert…Read More…

June 27, 2019 NJDOL Recovers $30,000 in Back Pay After Investigation Finds Employer Misclassified Workers TRENTON – The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s (NJDOL) Division of Wage and Hour Compliance reclaimed $30,832.37 in back wages for workers at C&N Interiors, LLC. of Boyertown, Pa., after an investigation found the employees were misclassified…Read More…

By: Gabrielle Saulsbery June 11, 2019 1:10 pm Navy Contractors Inc. faces $84,183 in penalties from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing employees to fall hazards on a work site in Lakewood. An OSHA inspector observed employees performing roofing activities without fall protections in January. The investigation conducted thereafter…Read More…

TRENTON – An Iselin construction contractor has agreed to pay back wages totaling nearly $150,000 to 13 laborers who claimed they were expected to kick back part of their pay to a crew leader while working on prevailing wage jobs. Fine Wall Corp. and its principals—Umukant Shah, Mrudula Shah, and Ronak Shah—also agreed to pay…Read More…

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…