The Seattle Office of Labor Standards ordered two concrete companies to pay over $2.2 million in restitution and penalties after officials alleged they were responsible for “egregious labor standards violations.”
Canadian concrete forming company Newway Forming and Florida concrete finishing company Baja Concrete together had 53 employees at Seattle work sites, where the OLS alleges they worked as much as 19 hours in a day without required breaks. The OLS also says the workers performed “significant” overtime labor without any overtime premium pay between February 2018 and August 2020.