Contractor pays back wages, damages for work at Waikiki hotel
JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM
The Maile Sky Court hotel and apartment is seen in this Aug, 29 photo.
A Texas contractor has paid dozens of workers more than $370,000 in back wages and damages after failing to pay them for overtime performed during the renovation of a Waikiki hotel.
The U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday R&R Construction Services Corp. of Houston paid 95 painters, carpenters and other workers more than $185,000 in unpaid overtime. The company paid the workers an equal amount in damages.
A phone call to a number for R&R Construction Services was not answered.
The workers were renovating the Maile Sky Court Hotel in Waikiki to reopen it as a Holiday Inn Express.
The department says the company misclassified the employees as independent contractors. It says the company paid the workers a fixed daily rate instead of for the hours they worked. The employees worked more than 40 hours a week.
4 responses to “Contractor pays back wages, damages for work at Waikiki hotel”
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Why is a “Texas contractor” doing major renovations in Waikiki?
Non-Union work is done for a cheaper cost???
Who signed the permit for this contractor?
So this crooked contractor is required to pay the employees what they should have been paid in the first place. No fine or other penalty? Where’s the deterrence?