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 …