Drywall company charged nearly $2M for wage theft violations
Posted OnJuly 30, 2018 byThe 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…
1 In 10 Workers Is An Independent Contractor, Labor Department Says
Posted OnJune 7, 2018 byFor 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…
The Underground Construction Economy in New Jersey
Posted OnJune 1, 2018 byLittle Egg contractors used $1.4M in Sandy money to gamble, buy diamond ring
Posted OnMay 29, 2018 byTOMS 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…
Construction Worker Fall Case Settles For $1.265 Million in Middlesex
Posted OnMay 28, 2018 byA 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…
West Milford roofing contractor fined $221,000 by OSHA for ladder, asbestos violations
Posted OnMay 23, 2018 byWEST MILFORD — A local roofing contractor has been fined more than $221,000 by federal officials for allegedly exposing employees to dangerous falls and asbestos while performing residential demolition work in the county. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the fine for the Hewitt-based contractor, John Prevete Framing LLC, on…Read More…
10 Biggest Contractor Fines under Trump’s OSHA
Posted OnMay 8, 2018 byThe president’s administration may be reluctant to “shame” contractors, but it doesn’t seem unwilling to levy big fines. During the Obama administration, Occupational Safety and Health Administration press releases that accompanied safety violation citations and notices of proposed fines were often of the “shaming” variety, according to Edwin G. Foulke Jr., former assistant secretary of…Read More…
Using ‘subs of subs,’ contractors able to evade liability in construction worker deaths
Posted OnMay 5, 2018 byAfter his brother died falling off the roof of a North Nashville home under construction, Hermenegildo Dominguez heard nothing from the roofing subcontractor. He heard nothing from the general contractor. Nothing from an insurance company. Typically, workers’ compensation would have covered $10,000 of funeral expenses, but Alfonso Dominguez, 60, was essentially off the books. It…Read More…
Crooked contractors: Sandy victims discover no background checks in NJ home improvement
Posted OnOctober 25, 2017 by► A loophole in the law allows convicted felons to receive state approval to do home improvement work ► A number of Sandy-affected homeowners who believed the state had done background checks on contractors hired a man who had defrauded others across the nation ► The convicted fraudster ripped off two dozen homeowners and employees…Read More…
Sandy contractor pleads guilty to $1.86M theft
Posted OnOctober 25, 2017 byTOMS RIVER – A former home improvement contractor who admitted Thursday to ripping off superstorm Sandy victims to the tune of about $1.86 million faces up to 10 years in a New Jersey state prison, a senior assistant prosecutor said. James “Jamie” Lawson, 42, under terms of a plea agreement with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s…Read More…