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The Department of Labor has obtained a trial commissioned by two painting and painting companies in Arizona to pay $ 7.45 million in wages and subsequent damage after Entrepreneurs voluntarily denied remuneration of overtime In addition to 1,400 employees, according to a statement from the Department.
The sentence of January 15 of the United States District Court of Arizona followed an investigation of the Division of Wages and Hours of Mourning, which found that Apodaca Wall Systems and Empire Wall Systems had violated the Fair Labor Rules Act .
Companies, owned by Arnold Apodaca and their children, Michael and Brittany Apodaca, allegedly tried to avoid paying overtime salaries paying employees per hour with multiple checks at direct rates for all hours worked. They also used labor runners to hire hourly workers, who they paid if they worked, even if they worked more than 40 hours on a week of work, according to the department.
Companies, who carry out wall and painting work in commercial work, also paid a piece of piece based on the square feet completed to workers outside the company’s payroll without regard to the actual number of hours worked, as per alleged the mourning. The crew leaders received, then, the remuneration to the workers, denying their legally remuneration of extension. In Arizona, workers are entitled to 1.5 times their normal time fee for each hour worked for 40 hours a week.
“Piece workers are entitled to the premium pay for extraordinary hours,” said Marc Pilotin, a regional request for Western Dol, in the statement. “These companies intentionally cheated on workers and injured their communities deliberately violating federal law and are now learning illegal actions like these have expensive consequences.”
In addition to payment of about $ 3.7 million in overtime wages and equal amount in liquidated damage, the ruling forces companies to pay for $ 125,000 in penalties.
Apodaca Wall Systems has done painting and painting work on benches, churches, entertainment places, medical buildings, offices, restaurants, schools and sales centers in the south -west, on its website.
APODCA WALL SYSTEMS did not respond to the DIVE construction comments request. Empire Wall Systems does not have public contact information publicly and you cannot comment at the time of publication.
