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The greatest incentive any contractor will have is money. If you only pay them a small portion of the work before it is completed, they have a great financial incentive to get the work done.
An Eatontown contractor has agreed to pay $530,000 in back wages and penalties after the company violated labor protections for 181 workers.
An employee being asked to work overtime, working through breaks, or being asked to report early and/or leave late without pay is being subjected to wage theft. This is sometimes justified as displacing a paid meal break without guaranteeing meal break time. In the most extreme cases, employees report receiving nothing.
Once you get a few names, Wells says check the Better Business Bureau report on each one, paying particular attention to complaints against them, and how the contractor responded.
Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for the tort of negligence. The trade-off between assured, limited coverage and lack of ...
In addition, the Act grants excepted employees permission to use their paid leave, and to receive standard compensation for leave taken. [14] It is further specified that this back pay is to be received at the earliest possible date after the end of a shutdown, so that employees would not need to wait until a scheduled pay day. [16]
Spike's 'Catch a Contractor' shows viewers the dangers of working with bad contractors -- and what a contractor named Myron did to the Wislocki family could've cost them their lives. "The hood is ...
Construction Intervention is a program on the Discovery Channel in which host Charlie Frattini and his team save small business that are on the brink of closing due to bad contractors or botched construction. They then get to work, completing all aspects of construction in a mere four days, and give the owner back a brand new business, ready ...