Brooklyn Company Ordered To Give $900K To Underpaid NYCHA Workers: AG

BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn electric company that underpaid hundreds of New York City Housing Authority workers will be forced to pay up nearly $1 million in the missing wages, according to the attorney general.

The East Flatbush company, Lintech Electric, paid 200 workers it hired on NYCHA projects across the five boroughs as much as three times less the wage required under the law, according to the attorney general and Department of Investigation probe.

They will pay the workers back $900,000 under the agreement, the AG said.

“Every worker deserves fair pay for their hard work,” Attorney General Letitia James said. “No employee should fear that they will be cheated at the hands of greedy employers, especially at the expense of the public good."

The 200 workers were hired by Lintech between 2015 and 2018 to install and maintain lighting and electrical outlets on scaffolding surrounding multiple NYCHA apartment buildings, according to the attorney general.

During that time, Lintech paid its workers between $20 and $60 an hour when New York state labor laws required between $74 and $110 per hour, according to the investigation.

Under the agreement with investigators, Lintech is barred from performing, contracting, or subcontracting public work in New York state for five years and will also pay a $30,000 penalty to cover the cost of investigation.