ST. PAUL, MINN. – “Significant by any measure,” say officials about the state recovering over 334-thousand dollars in back wages for construction workers who weren’t paid prevailing wage or overtime on a project in Detroit Lakes.
Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry Commissioner Roslyn Robertson says the North Dakota company, AE2S Construction, LLC, doing business as EIM, was doing electrical work on a wastewater treatment plant partially funded by a state grant.
She says the company failed to pay some of its employees overtime, and a number of employees were misclassified as apprentices instead of electricians.
The state recovered back wages for employees in amounts ranging from a few dollars to over 44-thousand. Robertson stresses “companies working in Minnesota must follow our state’s laws.”
