HARTFORD, CT – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered a total of $41,221 for 22 workers employed by a West Hartford moving and storage company and its subsidiary that provided bulk mail delivery service under a contract with the U.S. Postal Service.
Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division determined that Woodland Moving and Warehouse Inc. and subsidiary ARL Transportation LLC failed to pay the correct prevailing wage rate, and holiday and vacation pay for some drivers under the Service Contract Act. As a result, the employer paid $32,808 to 22 employees.
Woodland Moving also paid $8,413 to one employee to correct an overtime violation that resulted from its misapplication of the Fair Labor Standard’s Act’s executive exemption to an operations manager who was an hourly employee and wasn’t paid time-and-a-half overtime until he worked 60 hours, a federal overtime violation.
“Federal contractors must know and comply with the requirements of the Service Contract Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. The violations found during this investigation were preventable,” said Wage and Hour Division District Director Donald Epifano in Hartford, Connecticut. “We encourage employers with questions and concerns about their responsibilities and employees with questions about their rights under federal wage laws to contact the Wage and Hour Division.”
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