Former Employee Builds Lawsuit Against MECC Contracting Over Unpaid Wage Claims

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MECC Contracting Inc. and two individual owners are facing a former employee’s claims that they failed to pay proper wages. The plaintiff, who was employed as a laborer and saw cutter, says he worked for the defendants on contracted roadway projects in New York City and was not paid the prevailing wage rate or supplemental benefits for all hours worked. He further alleges that the defendants only paid him overtime hours for some of the hours he worked above 40 each week and did not pay him at all for the time he spent driving the company truck back to the MECC lot at the end of each workday.

Though the plaintiff and many of his co-workers were members of the union, the suit claims they sometimes received the higher “union rate” wages for only three days per week and were paid at a straight-time rate for the other days, with no added union benefits.

In addition, the case claims that the defendants unlawfully failed to provide their employees with proper wage notices and statements in accordance with the New York Labor Law.