Tara Builders Facing Former Employees’ Lawsuit Over Allegedly Unpaid Wages

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Tara Builders Inc. and the company’s three individual owners have been named as defendants in a proposed class and collective action filed by two former employees seeking to recover allegedly unpaid overtime wages.

The plaintiffs were employed in the positions of technician, construction worker, and laborer throughout their respective tenures with the telecommunications company and allege they worked up to 60 and 84 hours each week, respectively, without receiving proper time-and-a-half overtime pay. According to the suit, the men received straight-time pay for some overtime hours and were not compensated at all for others.

In addition, the plaintiffs claim the defendants maintained a practice of requiring employees to work off the clock:

“Throughout their respective employment periods, Plaintiffs and other employees of Defendants were requested to go – almost on a daily basis – to the Defendants’ ‘yard’ in order to gather materials, tools, and supplies to be used on different projects, and drive in a company van to the job sites. Defendants informed Plaintiffs and other employees that they do not pay for travel/drive time to go between the Defendants’ yard and the various jobsites, even though certain job sites were located many hours away from the yard, including in Delaware and New Jersey.”

Further, the suit charges the plaintiffs did not receive wage notices or proper wage statements, and instead, “were paid with a corporate check” that failed to indicate the number of hours worked or pay rates for each pay period.