A report exposed the employment practices
of a Brooklyn nonprofit that failed to pay its mentally ill workers correctly
for years.
It
is alleged that it paid its janitors a third of the wages and benefits required
by the state’s 'prevailing wage' law for janitorial jobs. Shorefront
Mental health board may
have underpaid their employees by as much as $123,224 during 2013, a figure
that is likely to rise after taking into account the lack of supplemental and
other benefits to which workers were entitled
Shorefront was contracted until March 2014 to supply 26
janitors to work at several locations in Brooklyn and Staten Island as part of
the part of the State Office of Mental Health’s (OMH) “Buy OMH” program, a
statewide workplace initiative established to facilitate and improve the
employability of New Yorkers with a psychiatric disability.
Shorefront management attempted to conceal their duplicity by
falsifying the hours on the payrolls they were required to submit to the OMH.
They continued to cheat employees out of the correct wage by paying them for
fewer hours than they had actually completed, telling workers to submit blank
time sheets that would supposedly be filled in accurately by management. The
audit found that one worker who completed a total of 72 hours in January 2014
and should have been paid $2,201.04 received just $600.34. These
inconsistencies were present throughout Shorefront’s payroll documents.
“This contractor unconscionably cheated
disabled employees out of thousands of dollars.” New York state comptroller
Tom DiNapoli said. “OMH needs to take immediate
action to make sure contractors follow the law to protect all workers.”
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