The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $1.6 million in back wages and liquidated damages for 188 workers, many of them denied minimum and overtime wages by a North Carolina construction services contractor who misclassified the employees as independent contractors. The recovery follows a default judgment against R&R Construction Maintenance of North Carolina Inc. that the department’s Office of the Solicitor obtained in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina in October 2022. The judgment required the company to pay the affected employees $838,007 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages.
