Mayor Rick Blangiardi hosted Pacific Resource Partnership Interim Executive Director Josh Magno and Hawai’i Regional Council of Carpenters Executive Secretary Treasurer Ron Taketa and members of the carpenters union at his office in Honolulu Hale to proclaim April 15, 2024 as “Tax Fraud Awareness Day” in the City and County of Honolulu.
The federal government recovered $693,100 in back wages and damages after its investigations determined S&A Industries Inc. schemed to deny payment of overtime wages to 110 construction workers from 12 states employed on several hotel renovation projects between 2019 and 2022. The investigations began after Pacific Resource Partnership provided information to federal authorities. [...]
LIHU‘E — A bill passed 6-1 by the Kaua‘i County Council and signed into law by Mayor Derek Kawakami in November of 2022 helps to discourage unfair labor practices by requiring permit-holders to disclose information about contractors working on site. Bill No. 2873 added a section to the county code requiring contractors [...]
“Play Fair in Hawai’i” is the Local Campaign of the National “Construction Industry Tax Fraud Days of Action” Honolulu, Hawai’i – In 2021, Pacific Resource Partnership announced “Play Fair in Hawai’i,” an initiative aimed at protecting Hawai’i’s working families, businesses and taxpayers from tax and other fraudulent business practices. The statewide campaign [...]
In December of 2016, the City and County of Honolulu ordered the Polynesian Plaza Hotel to cease operations for housing visitors while construction was still ongoing. The City and County also said the hotel had a faulty fire alarm system and that a stairwell was partly blocked. Hawai’i News Now reported on this [...]
A Texas-based construction firm that was contracted to work on a $20 million renovation of the Maile Sky Court Hotel in Waikiki was fined $767,095 for failing to comply with Hawai’i’s labor laws. The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said in a news release that the penalties against R&R Construction were for [...]
Texas-based R&R Construction was fined $371,376 by the federal government for failing to provide Prepaid Health Care, Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) and Workers’ Compensation to dozens of workers. Additionally, the company failed to pay workers the overtime pay they rightly deserved. Read the press release from Hawai’i Sen. Brian Schatz
A multi-agency investigation by the state of Hawai’i revealed some contractors hired to build one of the state’s largest projects did not offer workers basic types of protection. The violations involved temporary disability (TDI), health care, or both.
Undercover video shows construction workers at Ala Moana Center’s new high-end shops being paid “off the books” with cash. Contractors and sub-contractors in at least nine stores and eateries were investigated by the state for labor and safety violations.
HONOLULU, HI – The U.S. Department of Labor has secured a $318,244 consent judgment against Steve Hoegger & Associates Inc. – a general contractor based in Wylie, Texas