FORESTVILLE, Md. – The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689 and the Public Justice Center (PJC) yesterday sent a letter to Maryland Department of Labor Commissioner Devki Virk encouraging her to improve enforcement of the state’s living wage law against bad actors including France-based transit company Transdev. ATU Local 689 and PJC expressed concern that Transdev and other companies that have been awarded public contracts may continue to flout state law despite Transdev settling a wage theft lawsuit brought by the PJC last year for nearly $412,000. In the lawsuit, PJC represented 13 employees who alleged that they were paid only a few dollars per hour despite working up to sixty hours per week. Maryland’s Living Wage Law requires all companies with state service contracts valued at least $100,000 to prove they and their subcontractors are paying the required living wage by submitting bi-weekly payroll reports. But according to Local 689 and the PJC, many contractors have failed to comply with the law and have not submitted the payroll reports, making it easier for state contractors and subcontractors to steal workers’ hard-earned wages.
“ATU Local 689 knows firsthand how companies like Transdev flout State and Federal law by nickel-and-diming their workers to line their own pockets. Working families are already under immense economic pressures without having to worry about their employer stealing their well-earned paycheck. That is why it is crucial the Maryland...
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