Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is investigating whether janitorial employees working at the DC Water facility at 125 O Street SE were denied required contract wages, fringe benefits, overtime, or pay for all hours worked.
What is the issue?
Employees who clean publicly operated facilities are often hired by outside companies. Although the worker may receive a paycheck from a small cleaning contractor, the applicable government contract may require a higher wage and additional benefits.
Clean Team previously resolved allegations that it underpaid cleaners assigned to DC Water facilities. Federal labor records specifically list 125 O Street SE among the locations where Clean Team cleaners worked.
Workers may have experienced:
- A pay rate lower than the rate promised under the cleaning contract.
- No separate fringe-benefit payment despite lacking employer-provided benefits.
- Unpaid setup, supply, inspection, or closing time.
- Missing overtime after working at several DC Water sites.
- Payroll records that did not identify the building or contract.
- Deductions for uniforms, equipment, transportation, or other business expenses.
Signs you may be affected
- You worked as a janitor, cleaner, custodian, porter, floor technician, or other building-services employee at the DC Water facility located at 125 O Street SE.
- You worked for a cleaning, maintenance, staffing, or facilities contractor rather than directly for DC Water.
- You performed required work before or after your scheduled shift, including setup, inspections, supply collection, or cleanup, without being paid.
- You worked more than 40 hours in a week but did not receive proper overtime pay.
- Your paycheck did not include the required contract wage, fringe benefits, or all hours you worked.
- You worked at more than one DC Water facility, but your employer failed to properly combine your hours when calculating overtime.
DC Water may have retained a larger company to manage the cleaning or maintenance work. Under D.C.’s contractor-liability rules, companies above the worker’s immediate employer may also be responsible for unpaid wages.
If you performed janitorial, cleaning, sanitation, porter, floor-care, grounds, or other facilities-maintenance work at 125 O Street SE and believe you were not paid correctly, please contact Migliaccio & Rathod LLP through the form below, by email at [email protected], or by telephone at (202) 470-3520.