A handful of subcontractors on a high-profile, partially publicly subsidized upper-scale apartment project along the city’s harbor have been fined a total of $160,500 and given stop-work orders for breaking state labor laws. The long-awaited development is the first phase of a proposed 1,500 units funded in part with a 12-year municipal tax break. State government also provided a $20 million low interest loan in exchange for 160 of the initial 420-units being designated as lower-cost “workforce housing” as well as nearly $1 million for the complicated environmental cleanup of the property. In late November, Connecticut’s Wage and Workplace Standards Division ordered five of the companies on-site — all but one from New York or New Jersey — to halt construction for misclassifying laborers and failing to provide workers’ compensation insurance.
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