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TRENTON – A Camden County solar panel contractor was recently cited by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) for failure to pay prevailing wage on a public works project, among other violations.

A&I Electrical Construction, LLC was contracted by the Board of Public Utilities under the agency’s Solar Renewable Energy Credits financial assistance program to construct a solar field in Jackson Township. The project called for the construction of a solar field generating 1.6 megawatts of power, making it subject to state prevailing wage law. The company said it was unaware the state’s prevailing wage law …

TRENTON – Two recent investigations by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) yielded $162,000 in unpaid wages due to nearly 300 workers.The separate investigations were undertaken by NJDOL’s Wage & Hour Compliance Division.

The first found that Site Enterprises Inc. of Pleasantville owed $112,290 to 23 laborers for violations on three public works projects: asbestos abatement at Kean University in Union; an emergency housing demolition in Camden; and asbestos abatement and demolition of a New Jersey Schools Development project in East Orange.

The violations were failure to pay prevailing wage; keeping inaccurate certified payrolls; and misclassification …

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TRENTON – A New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) investigation found that Bensalem-based subcontractor Men of Steel was in violation of New Jersey prevailing wage and worker misclassification laws while fabricating custom parts for a public works project.

The investigation resulted from a complaint alleging that custom fabrication work performed at Men of Steel’s New Jersey location was subject to the New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act. Men of Steel was hired by general contractor Railroad Posillico JV LLC of Paterson to build reinforcing steel cages for a Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission project in Newark.

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TRENTON – A team of more than 60 investigators from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) and the Department of the Treasury, supported by other state agencies, conducted an unannounced investigation of a construction site at 88 Regent Street in Jersey City in response to allegations of worker misclassification. 

Within weeks of Governor Murphy signing new legislation to bolster the state’s already strong misclassification laws, the Department of Labor’s Divisions of Wage and Hour Compliance, and Public Safety and Occupational Safety and Health joined staff from the Department of the Treasury’s Division of Taxation on …

TRENTON – Building on his commitment to making sure that workers and employers in New Jersey are treated fairly, Governor Phil Murphy today signed a four-bill legislative package furthering state efforts to stop employee misclassification.

Misclassification is the practice of illegally and improperly classifying employees as independent contractors. This practice deprives workers of the right to earn minimum wage and overtime, workers’ compensation, unemployment, earned sick leave, job-protected family leave, temporary disability, and equal pay, and leaves them unprotected against discrimination. It also hurts the vast majority of employers who play by the rules, by putting them at a competitive …