Zane Razzaq
MetroWest Daily News
Dec. 29, 2021
FRAMINGHAM — A Hollis Street construction company and its owners will be fined more than $540,000 over allegations they failed to pay prevailing wages to employees who worked on public projects at the Middleborough and Westport police stations, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
Superior Carpentry Inc. and its president, Fernando Barroso, and vice president, Felipe Drumond, were issued five citations by Attorney General Maura Healey’s office for failing to pay prevailing wages, not submitting accurate payroll records and falsifying records, according to a press release.
Another Framingham company, BPI Construction Management Inc. on 110 Mill St., also received a separate complaint from the office alleging it knowingly facilitated the submission of fraudulent payroll records.
BPI subcontracted the work to Superior Carpentry.
“These companies cheated workers out of the wages they earned while working on public construction projects and then repeatedly lied about it to the municipalities involved,” said Healey in a statement. “Contractors and constructions companies at every level, in every trade, are responsible for performing their work in accordance with the law. It is a priority of our office to ensure that workers are paid the wages owed to them.”