State officials recently temporarily halted renovations to the former American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) building downtown over labor law violations. Juliet Manalan, a labor department spokesperson, confirmed that agency’s wage and workplace standards division issued stop work orders to a trio of businesses involved in the project for misclassifying workers and not having workers’ compensation insurance: Odysseus Multi-tech and Pillar Management, both of New York, and a J. Gonzalez, of Connecticut, which had the insurance but not for the correct amount of employees or type of work. Odysseus was also cited for having unlicensed personnel performing plumbing. A pair of construction unions — the Fairfield County Building Trades and Carpenter’s Local 326 — scheduled a 10 a.m. rally Saturday at 430 John St. to protest the violations. Their announcement noted this is the second high profile redevelopment in Bridgeport where stop work orders were issued over workers’ compensation and misclassification issues.
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