Defendants must also pay $53K in penalties for willfully depriving workers of overtime wages
NEW YORK – Three Bellport concrete supply and construction companies and their owner, who schemed for three years to deny overtime pay to 99 laborers, have been ordered to pay the workers a total of $987,591 in back wages and liquidated damages, plus interest, in a consent judgment entered in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
The court’s action follows a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into the pay practices of Macedo Construction Inc., Macedo Contracting Services Inc., Odecam Concrete Supply Corp. and Manuel Macedo. The companies and their owner must also pay $53,249 in civil money penalties and interest to the department for their willful violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The department’s Wage and Hour Division found that Manuel Macedo and his companies failed to combine the hours laborers worked at the commonly owned businesses. The employer paid them with multiple checks from the three companies to evade overtime requirements. Each separate check showed the employees worked less than 40 hours per workweek when they actually worked a combined total of up to 48 hours per week. In addition, they did not pay the employees for time spent traveling from the companies’ work yards to jobsites, and failed to make, keep and retain accurate records of the employees’ work hours and pay rates.
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