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U.S. Master™ Wage-Hour Guide, 2009 Edition 
Presents a first approach to the broad and complex controls under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and other statutes regulating employee wages and hours.
The Department of Labor (DOL) will recover more than $1.8 million in back wages for more than 500 employees of MT Transportation & Logistics Services Inc., a Long Island, New York-based trucking company under contract with the United States Postal Service (USPS) to haul mail. The company and its principal officers also will be debarred from receiving future government contracts for a three-year period.
USPS mail haul contracts are subject to the prevailing wage and fringe benefits provisions of the federal McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act. The McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act requires contractors and subcontractors performing on federal service contracts in excess of $2,500 to pay service employees no less than the wage rates and fringe benefits found prevailing in the locality for the classification of work that they perform. The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division cited the company and the company's officers for failing to pay their service employees the legally required hourly rates and fringe benefits.
In an administrative complaint filed with the DOL’s Office of Administrative Law Judges (ALJ), the Wage and Hour Division named as respondents the company, Anthony Alvarez as president, Andrew Meyers as vice president-sales, Della Herzog as vice president-finance and Terri Chester as controller/general manager. The ALJ approved a consent findings and order to resolve the complainant when the respondents agreed to pay a total of $1,830,800 in back wages and interest for the period from December1, 2005, to December 31, 2008. The judgment also orders the company and the principal officers to be debarred from future government contracts for three years and to establish a compliance program to ensure future compliance with wage and hour laws.
The investigation was conducted by the Westbury, New York district office of the Wage and Hour Division.
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