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Administrative Complaint * USA - Labor Department seeks $1.4 Million in back wages from Calif. mail hauler
The U.S. Department of Labor has filed an administrative complaint against Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Alan Berman Trucking to recover $1,369,870 in back wages for 80 current and former employees
San Francisco,CAL,USA -The Trucker -21 Aug 2007: -- The complaint also seeks debarment of the company and its principals, which would prohibit them from receiving government contracts for a period of three years, the government reported today... “Federal contractors have a responsibility to pay workers in accordance with federal law,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao in a Labor Department news release... Investigators with the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division found violations on eight contracts where the company treated the drivers as independent contractors, requiring that they use their own trucks and assume all costs. The company paid employees either by the mile or by the trip, failed to record hours worked and failed to pay any fringe benefits as required by law. In addition, the company made illegal deductions for fuel from the drivers’ pay and failed to reimburse the cost of the driver-owned trucks’ maintenance and wear and tear. As a result, the drivers’ wages fell below the prevailing wage rate required by the SCA, according to the government statement...
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