A New Jersey drywall contractor owes $725,000 in back wages, damages and civil money penalties under a federal court order, after the U.S. Department of Labor found 48 workers were denied overtime pay. The company is P & B Partitions Inc. of Voorhees. The order was reported on Oct. 22.
What the court order requires
The Labor Department obtained a consent judgment and final order in federal district court, Recruiting Headlines reported. A consent judgment is a court order the company agreed to, so it carries the force of a ruling rather than an allegation.
The sum is a total, and not all of it goes to the workers as wages. According to a second account from Construction Owners, it breaks into $350,000 in back wages, $350,000 in liquidated damages and $25,000 in civil money penalties. That account dates the order June 26, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey…