Two companies working on the construction of a new Veterans Affairs clinic in Daytona Beach shorted employees a combined $224,113 in pay and benefits by violating two laws covering federal construction, the U.S. Department of Labor announced.
Cash and benefits that should have gone to 29 employees of EBP Electric Services, run out of Plant City by company president Edgar Barriga Ponce, accounted for $181,384. The remaining $42,729 should have gone to eight workers employed by M.C.A Communications.
As with any federal construction work over $2,000, the building of the VA clinic at 1776 N. Williamson Blvd. is covered by the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts. Under Davis-Bacon, employers working on such projects “must pay their laborers and mechanics employed under the contract no less than the locally prevailing wages and fringe benefits for corresponding work on similar projects in the area.”
The project is also covered by the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, which “requires contractors to pay laborers and mechanics, including watchpersons and guards, employed in the performance of covered contracts not less than one and one-half times their basic rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek.”
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