{"id":3233,"date":"2010-06-08T11:25:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2010-06-08T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T15:25:29","slug":"trash-disposal-company-to-pay-additional-1-3-million-in-back-wages-and-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2010\/06\/trash-disposal-company-to-pay-additional-1-3-million-in-back-wages-and-overtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash Disposal Company to Pay Additional $1.3 Million in Back Wages and Overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allied Waste Services of Massachusetts, LLC (Allied Waste) agreed to pay $1,327,567 in additional restitution discovered during an audit required by a previous settlement with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2009, Allied Waste had reached an agreement to pay restitution of over $404,000 and a $50,000 penalty to settle certain prevailing wage and overtime violations for trash disposal work performed at the Oak Bluffs\/Tisbury Transfer Station. At the same time, Allied Waste agreed to an audit of its prevailing wage and overtime calculation for all employees in Massachusetts. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Allied-Waste-Settlement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> issued by the office of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/?pageID=cagohomepage&amp;L=1&amp;L0=Home&amp;sid=Cago\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley<\/a>, Allied Waste cooperated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/?pageID=cagohomepage&amp;L=1&amp;L0=Home&amp;sid=Cago\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney General\u2019s Office<\/a> throughout the investigation. Due to the complexity of prevailing wage and overtime calculations, <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> strongly recommends that employers consult with a\u00a0competent labor law attorney to assure compliance with these laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allied Waste Services of Massachusetts, LLC (Allied Waste) agreed to pay $1,327,567 in additional restitution discovered during an audit required by a previous settlement with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2009, Allied Waste had reached an agreement to pay restitution of over $404,000 and a $50,000 penalty to settle certain prevailing wage and overtime violations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1268,525,13,45,576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}