BREMERTON — A Naval Base Kitsap contractor must pay an additional $239,000 in wages to 26 workers after an investigation by the federal Department of Labor found they had been under-compensated for their work.
It’s the second time Nova Group Inc. has been found in violation of prevailing wage requirements, the Labor Department said. Its work in Kitsap includes $21.5 million in projects on the Bangor waterfront and $17.8 million in dry dock work at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
The workers — which included carpenters, forklift operators, pipefitters and electricians — were classified as general laborers, positions that did not pay prevailing wages and benefits, the Kitsap Sun reported.
“Our investigation found this employer shorting the hard-earned wages of these skilled workers,” said Thomas Silva, the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division District Director in Seattle.