Mail haulers in Alabama owed $329,057 in back pay

Mail contractors owes back pay

A mail contractor owes employees in Alabama and Florida back pay and benefits, federal investigators said.Alexander Marks

A Florida-based contractor will pay back wages and benefits to postal delivery personnel in Montgomery.

The payment comes after an investigation into St. Augustine, Florida-based Postal Fleet Services Inc. by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.

Postal Fleet Services will pay $329,057 in back wages and benefits to 53 employees for violations of requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act, the labor department said.

“No federal contractor should gain an economic advantage by paying employees below the prevailing wages and fringe benefits their contract requires,” said Wage and Hour Regional Administrator Juan Coria. “Federal service contracts spell out employers’ responsibilities when they bid on these jobs. Violations like these can be avoided.”

According to investigators, Postal Fleet Services failed to pay drivers the prevailing rates for contract work they performed for the U.S. Postal Service to haul mail in Montgomery and Tupelo, Miss. The employer, according to investigators, failed to pay drivers for sorting mail before their scheduled shifts and for the time they spent driving company trucks from one city to another between local routes. Postal Fleet Services also failed to pay fringe benefits to employees and didn’t maintain records of hours employees worked, the labor department said.

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