TRENTON, N.J. — An ongoing strategic enforcement initiative targeting New Jersey’s retail laundromats has uncovered a variety of wage and hour violations among a small sampling of businesses, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) has announced.
The Department’s Wage and Hour Division recently completed its first strategic enforcement initiative involving the retail laundromat industry, including a comprehensive analysis of industry practices and areas identified for corrective action.
Wage and Hour investigators visited 20 retail laundromat locations owned by nine employers in New Jersey (none were identified in the announcement). Only one of the locations was free of violations, and investigators determined that more than $56,000 in wages are owed to the primarily low-wage employees, and many workers are not receiving the earned sick leave they lawfully accrued.
Strategic enforcement focuses on industries with a history of non-compliance with existing laws and those whose employees are less likely to file complaints with the Department. The approach augments existing complaint-driven enforcement actions.
Investigators interviewed dozens of employees and employers and reviewed thousands of documents. Based on their findings, the Wage and Hour Division cited laundromats for failing to pay employees the state minimum wage; failing to pay employees time and a half their regular pay rate for hours worked over 40...
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