More than 100 construction workers in the District will receive restitution after the Office of the Attorney General reached settlements with two drywall companies accused of misclassifying employees and denying them wages and benefits required under District law.
Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced that DR Construction and Consulting, Inc. and Pedro & Pablo’s Construction Company, Inc. will pay a combined $302,739 to workers and the District following an investigation into labor practices at job sites across the city.
“Today, we’re putting money back in the pockets of more than one hundred construction workers who were illegally deprived of wages and benefits they were legally entitled to receive,” Schwalb said in a March 25 statement…