Apr 21, 2025 | Blue Star | BWK | Disability Benefits Fund | drywall | Drywall Builders | electrical | failed to maintain and produce records of earned sick leave | failed to maintain and produce records of hours and wages | failed to make available and provide earned sick leave | failed to make required contributions to the New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Fund | failed to pay overtime | failed to pay timely wages | flooring | framing | General Contractors | GSC | HVAC | Independent Contractors | insulations | Lawsuit | misclassification | New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) | Numerous Labor Violations | P&B | painting | plumbing | roofing | scaffolding work | sprinkler | Subcontractors | Williams Drywall | Workforce Development Funds | Defending our Workforce | Department of Labor | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo jointly announced a lawsuit against a general contractor and five subcontractors for paying construction workers off the books on a Jersey City complex, denying the workers their lawful pay and benefits.
Dec 17, 2024 | Division of Law | employees | exploitation of workers | Failing to maintain and provide records | Failing to pay wages due to employees | Failing to provide employees earned sick leave | Hindering the NJDOL in its investigation | Illegally requesting job applicants’ criminal history | Independent Contractors | Misclassification of workers | New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) | newspaper delivery firm | NJ Labor Law | NJ Penn | Settlement | Withholding or diverting employee wages | workers' rights and benefits | Defending our Workforce | Department of Labor | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
NJ Penn Employees Illegally Classified as Independent Contractors For Immediate Release: December 17, 2024 Office of the Attorney General– Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney GeneralDivision of Law– Michael C. Walters, Acting DirectorNew Jersey Department of Labor &...
Oct 18, 2024 | Department of Labor | Division of Law | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo jointly announced a $2.7 million settlement with a delivery firm that was misclassifying workers as independent contractors rather than as employees.
Jul 11, 2024 | Defending our Workforce | Department of Labor | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo today jointly announced an agreement with Horseless Carriage Carrier, Inc., a Paterson-based transporter of luxury cars, concerning violations of New Jersey labor laws resulting from the company misclassifying its employee drivers as independent contractors, taking unlawful deductions from their pay, and recordkeeping violations.
