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All Shook Down: Bergen Payroll Manager’s Extortion Racket Shorted Workers By $1M, State Charges All Shook Down: Bergen Payroll Manager’s Extortion Racket Shorted Workers By $1M, State Charges
All Shook Down: Bergen Payroll Manager’s Extortion Racket Shorted Workers By $1M, State Charges The payroll manager of a Saddle Brook construction company shorted a group of employees' pay by more than $1 million by shaking them down for cash kickbacks, state authorities charged. Toni Jovanoski, 44, of Montvale was charged with misconduct by a corporate official and making false payment claims for a public works contract, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Monday. At the same time, state officials allowed the general contractor, UniMak, to avoid criminal charges by agreeing to repay the seven cheated employees the full $1,082,041 they lost, he said. For more than five …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Morris County Landscaping Company Agrees To Compensate Workers Owed $530G In Overtime Morris County Landscaping Company Agrees To Compensate Workers Owed $530G In Overtime
Morris County Landscaping Company Agrees To Compensate Workers Owed $530G In Overtime A Morris County-based landscaping company that stiffed its employees nearly half a million legally required in overtime has agreed to pay them the owed money, the NJ Department of Labor said. A six-month investigation found that Kenvil-based Fullerton Grounds Maintenance workers had not been paid $529,898.12 collectively in overtime for time worked more than 40 hours per week. The more than 25-year-old company was also found to have made illegal deductions for uniforms and other items not permitted by the New Jersey Wage Payment Law. “We are not allowing any business to get away with …

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by Cecilia Levine