Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is investigating whether workers involved in the redevelopment of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus were denied overtime, proper employee classification, prevailing wages, or paid leave.
What is the issue?
The Parks at Walter Reed is a large, multiphase redevelopment involving new construction and the adaptive reuse of historic buildings. Plans include residential, retail, office, healthcare, educational, hospitality, and public-space components. Public descriptions state that the project encompasses approximately 66 acres and millions of square feet of development.
A project of this scale can involve many general contractors, specialty subcontractors, lower-tier subcontractors, staffing companies, and crew leaders over several years. Workers on different buildings may be subject to different wage requirements depending on the funding, contract, and phase.
This investigation does not assume that every contractor at Walter Reed violated the law. It seeks information from workers about specific buildings, contractors, pay practices, and periods.
Workers may have experienced:
- Employee misclassification and issuance of a Form 1099.
- Straight-time pay for hours over 40.
- Flat daily rates for long shifts.
- Missing prevailing wages on qualifying publicly funded work.
- Incorrect trade classifications on certified payroll records.
- Unpaid orientation, security, waiting, or site-access time.
- Deductions for tools, protective equipment, transportation, or parking.
- No paid sick and safe leave.
- Hours split among phases or subcontractors.
- Missing final wages after a contractor left the project.
Signs you may be affected
- You performed construction, demolition, utility, landscaping, concrete, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, or another construction trade at the Walter Reed redevelopment project.
- You worked for a subcontractor or staffing company rather than directly for the project’s general contractor.
- You performed required work before or after your scheduled shift 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 paycheck did not include the required contract wage, fringe benefits, or all hours you worked.
- You worked for more than one subcontractor on the project, but your employer failed to properly pay you for all of your hours.
Workers need not identify the general contractor before seeking legal advice. Project photographs, badges, orientation documents, paystubs, schedules, text messages, and supervisor names can establish where and for whom the work was performed.
If you performed construction, renovation, restoration, demolition, installation, cleanup, material-handling, landscaping, logistics, or other site-support work at the Walter Reed redevelopment and believe you were misclassified or underpaid, please contact Migliaccio & Rathod LLP through the form below, by email at [email protected], or by telephone at (202) 470-3520.