WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following press release:
VOORHEES, NJ-The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and final order in federal district court requiring a New Jersey drywall installer to pay $725,000 in back wages, damages, and civil money penalties after denying 48 workers overtime pay.
The department's Wage and Hour Division found that P & B Partitions Inc. failed to pay their employees for pre-shift work while they waited for transportation to their jobsites. The failure to pay constitutes a violation under the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime provisions.
"Tasks completed to prepare for the job, and in this case, while waiting to get to the worksite, is work that must be ...