Construction Firm Fined for Wage Violation
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SHERMAN OAKS — A Los Angeles court commissioner ordered a Sherman Oaks construction firm to pay $43,000 for failing to pay five of its employees prevailing wages, the city attorney’s office announced Tuesday.
Los Angeles Municipal Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau directed the Li-Con Construction Co. to compensate four plumbers and a laborer for their work on a federally funded earthquake-repair project at the Shelter for the Homeless in Koreatown.
The firm pleaded guilty to two counts of paying a wage other than required by contract or law. The case is part of the city attorney’s office’s ongoing efforts against fraud in publicly funded earthquake-repair projects.
Li-Con paid the workers between $9 and $15 an hour while the prevailing wage was $23 to $35.85. The contract between the company and the city Housing Department included a clause that required the company to pay the city-defined prevailing wage, according to City Atty. Jim Hahn.
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