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Enforcement Actions, Local Law Updates

Contractor in Albany has pleaded guilty to defrauding minority-owned businesses in an $800,000 scheme. He is expected to receive a sentence of 3 1/2 to 12 years in state prison…

U.S. Recovers $14.3 Million for Hurricane Recovery Workers

September 26, 2018

Enforcement Actions, Federal Law Updates

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has recovered $14,337,657 in unpaid wages for 7,761 employees engaged in hurricane recovery work in Puerto Rico and the U.S.…

New Jersey Revising Penalties Under Prevailing Wage Act

September 19, 2018

Bill A-1852 was passed by the New Jersey Assembly Labor Committee on September 17, 2018. Under the bill, upon conviction of a first or second violation under the Prevailing Wage…

Contractor Charged for Falsifying CPRs on La Guardia Airport Project

August 23, 2018

In New York, a contractor has been arrested for allegedly submitting false certified payrolls on a project at La Guardia Aiport, which resulted in 28 construction workers being underpaid by…

Ninth Circuit Upholds California’s SB 954 Requiring Public Works Employers to Obtain Employee Collective Consent before Contributing to Anti-Union IAFs

August 16, 2018

Interpipe Contracting, Inc. and the Associated Builders and Contractors of California Cooperation Committee, Inc. challenged SB 954, which amended the Labor Code to clarify that employers may take a wage…

Construction Company in New York Indicted for Wage Theft and Insurance Fraud

August 2, 2018

A construction company in New York has been charged in the State Supreme Court with an indictment. Among the charges is for misclassifying workers as lesser-skilled in order to pay…

General Contractor Pays $1.1 Million in Prevailing Wage Settlement on Long Beach High School Project

July 11, 2018

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California Labor Commissioner found that a total of 103 workers weren’t paid prevailing wage and fringe benefits by their employer, Newport Beach-based Champion Construction, Inc., a subcontractor on the construction…

New York Contractor Barred from City Contracts for Next Five Years Due to Prevailing Wage Violation

June 19, 2018

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Enforcement Actions

A construction company in New York was found to have underpaid their workers; and in some cases, it more than $50 an hour below the prevailing wage rate. As part…

New Jersey Task Force to Examine Misclassification in Construction Industry

May 10, 2018

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