Massachusetts construction company $160,000 for wage violations on nine public projects in state (MA)

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by Mark Iandolo |
Jul. 19, 2017, 9:40am

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced on July 12 that a New Hampshire-based construction company will pay roughly $160,000 for allegations of failing to pay employees the proper prevailing wage and overtime for nine public works projects completed between 2014 and 2015.

Healey’s office specifically filed three citations against Northeast Partition Specialties Inc. and owner Fredrick Breth. The defendants purportedly failed to pay prevailing wage,overtime or submit true and accurate certified payroll records.
“Companies that do business in Massachusetts must play by the rules,” Healey said. “Prevailing wage laws are intended to ensure a level playing field for companies and provide a real, living wage to workers.”

The defendants allegedly committed the violations while working on public projects that included SSGT James J. Hill School in Revere, Bresnahan Elementary School in Newburyport, Acushnet Police Facility, Chelmsford Fire Department, Dracut Town Hall, Sudbury Police Department, Park Avenue Elementary in Webster, West Bridgewater Middle-Senior High School, Westborough Fire Department.

Handling the case for Massachusetts are Erik Bennett, assistant attorney general, and investigator Tom Lam.

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Prevailing Wage Violation Leads to $255,000 Settlement With Attorney General

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02/13/2017
By: Jonathon Sizemore

A contractor and a developer are to pay $255,000 for violating the New York False Claims Act and not paying workers a prevailing wage. On February 9, 2017, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a settlement agreement with a New York City-based general contractor and a developer for failing to pay a prevailing wage to workers at their public works project.

The contractor, A. Aleem Construction Inc., and the developer, West 131st Street Development Corp., were both participants in the Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Program of the Department of Housing Preservations and Development. The program was intended to enable neighborhood-based private property managers to own and manage clusters of occupied and vacant city-owned buildings. Buildings selected for the program are sold to the Neighborhood Partnership Housing Development Fund Corporation and then leased to the participants. The participants then oversee the rehabilitation and design of the buildings with general contractors. The program is partially funded with federal money.

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MSUM reimbursed ND contractors for prevailing wage errors

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MOORHEAD – Minnesota State University Moorhead reimbursed West Fargo’s FM Contracting Inc. for nearly $69,000 after the company was told by a state agency it had not paid some workers in line with the state’s prevailing wage levels.

Jan Mahoney, MSUM’s vice president for finance and administration, said MSUM paid the difference in wages sought by the Department of Labor and Industry for 19 workers because of an architect’s error on bid documents sent out for the renovation of Dahl Hall.

“FM Contracting did everything OK,” Mahoney said Monday. “It was an oversight on the part of our architects.”

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