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Landscaping Company Ordered To Reimburse Underpaid Workers
BERKELEY – The U.S. Office of Labor is purchasing a neighborhood business landscaping firm to fork out its 47 short-term staff $181,670 in back wages and $38,329 in civil penalties. According to the Labor Department, Turf Masters Inc. on Magnolia Street in Bayville was employing grasscutters from Mexico for additional than 50 several hours for every week. A federal launch stated that the personnel have been paid “sub-prevailing wage costs for all several hours worked.” Turf Masters then tried out hiding this information from the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division. Judges from the Labor Department’s Business office of Administrative Law are demanding Turf Masters to…