Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is investigating whether contracted cleaners, custodians, maintenance employees, and support workers at WMATA stations and rail yards were paid for all work time and at the correct contractual rate.
What is the issue?
Metro cleaning and maintenance employees may begin their day at a yard, supply room, or reporting location before traveling to the station or area where the principal work occurs. Time spent receiving assignments, collecting equipment, traveling between assigned locations, or returning supplies may be compensable.
Workers assigned to overnight or split shifts may also experience payroll errors when hours cross midnight or fall into different payroll days.
Workers may have experienced:
- Unpaid travel between a rail yard, supply facility, and Metro station.
- Unpaid time collecting equipment or receiving daily assignments.
- Time-clock rounding that removed minutes from each shift.
- Automatic meal deductions during overnight work.
- Hours after midnight assigned to the wrong workday or week.
- Missing shift differentials, contract wages, or fringe benefits.
- Overtime hours split among different stations or contractors.
- Unpaid work performed during emergency cleaning or service disruptions.
Signs you may be affected
- You worked at a WMATA station, rail yard, maintenance facility, or transit property as a cleaner, laborer, maintenance worker, mechanic, electrician, or other contractor employee.
- You worked for a subcontractor or staffing company rather than directly for WMATA.
- You performed required setup, travel between work locations, inspections, or cleanup without being paid for all of your time.
- You worked more than 40 hours in a week but did not receive proper overtime pay.
- Your employer failed to pay the required contract wage or fringe benefits for covered work.
- Your recorded hours were reduced or altered, or you were not paid for all hours spent performing assigned work.
Workers often recognize the station, yard, uniform, vehicle, work crew, or supervisor but not the company holding the principal WMATA contract. The contracting chain can be identified later through procurement and payroll records.
If you performed cleaning, custodial, porter, sanitation, floor-care, maintenance, equipment-handling, grounds, laborer, or other facilities-support work on WMATA property and believe some of your work time was unpaid, please contact Migliaccio & Rathod LLP through the form below, by email at [email protected], or by telephone at (202) 470-3520.