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Company: Glenn O. Hawbaker, Inc.
Penalty: $20,937,015
Year: 2021
Date: August 3, 2021
Offense Group: employment-related offenses
Primary Offense: wage and hour violation
Violation Description: Hawbaker pleaded guilty to multiple violations related to the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act and the federal Davis-Bacon Act when failing to pay prevailing wage on government funded projects by using money intended for prevailing wage workers' retirement funds to contribute to retirement accounts for all employees and using funds intended for the prevailing wage workers' health and welfare benefits to subsidize the self-funded health insurance plan that covered all employees. The company then disguised the scheme by artificially inflating costs and claiming credit for prohibited costs. It was ordered to pay $20,696,453 in restitution and $240,562 in fees.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Pennsylvania Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
Facility State: Pennsylvania
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