Welcome to CPR's first- and only-of-its-kind Crimes Against Workers Database. Here you’ll find detailed information about state criminal cases and grassroots advocacy campaigns against employers responsible for crimes against workers – leaving them dead, maimed, seriously injured or sick, or robbing them of some or all of their paychecks. You'll also find links to Google Drive folders with source materials. Search using the tools below.
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Struck by | Georgia | February 20, 2014
Sarah Jones, a camera assistant, was killed and 8 others were injured trying to escape from an oncoming freight train during the filming of 'Midnight Rider.' The film director, Randall Miller, had ordered the crew to set up on the active railway, even though CSX had refused him permission to film there.
Crushed | California | February 7, 2014
Marich and Vasquez were crushed and killed while the company owner, Meng Peng, was unloading slabs of granite from a shipping container. Peng was operating a forklift to remove the bundles of granite slabs from the container. While unloading the last load of the day, the slabs tipped over and landed on the two men. […]
Wage Theft | New York | January 2, 2014
Between 2014 and 2015, The Urban Group's owner, Gewan 'Ken' Bharatlall, had six non-union workers perform construction related tasks such as demolition, masonry, carpentry, painting, and caulking. The company was awarded contracts to perform work on schools in Brooklyn and the Bronx. The defendants owner falsely certified that the defendant had paid the employees the […]
Wage Theft | New York | January 1, 2014
Between 2014 and 2015, defendants falsified payroll summaries to indicate that workers were being paid prevailing wages for public works projects, when in fact, workers were paid less than prevailing wages. Defendants failed to pay employees approximately $281,000 in wages. Defendant Vickram Mangru owned and operated Vick Construction from 2012 to 2014, and when the […]
Wage Theft | New York | January 1, 2014
According to the indictment, between 2014 and 2017, Parkside Construction, its owners, and its constituent companies, which included Parkside Construction Builders Corp., Parkside Construction Contractors Inc., and GS&F Enterprises LLC, stole more than $1.7 million from at least 520 workers through a wage theft scheme with the assistance of Affinity Human Resources, LLC, a professional […]
Wage Theft | New York | January 1, 2014
A Brooklyn, New York, contracting company that has done extensive work for the New York City Housing Authority, often on no-bid contracts, admitted to committing fraud. In a plea agreement, the owners, a married couple, acknowledged that they had for years filed false "certified payrolls" with the Housing Authority. In one instance, they had represented […]
Wage Theft | New York | January 1, 2014
Cathay Express Transpiration, Inc. cheated 125 of its employees out of approximately $250,000 in wages by failing to pay time-and-a-half overtime rates to drivers and failed to pay minimum wages in several instances.
Wage Theft | District of Columbia | January 1, 2014
Power Design is an contractor that performs electrical work in the construction industry. Between 2014 and 2017, Power Design illegally reduced labor costs by misclassifying at least 535 electrical workers to avoid paying overtime wages, paying minimum wages, and providing sick leave. The District’s Office of the Attorney General reached a settlement requiring Power Design […]
Wage Theft | California | January 1, 2014
In the largest wage theft case ever brought by the state of California against a private company, the state labor commissioner cited RDV Construction for cheating more then 1,000 workers out of minimum wage, overtime pay, and legally-mandated rest breaks on 35 construction sites across the Los Angeles region. Investigators found that the employer habitually […]