The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $1,914,681.50 in back wages and fringe benefits for 147 workers at Proimtu Mmi-Nv LLC, a Henderson-based subcontractor providing construction services at the federally funded Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project in Tonopah. This project, which received a $737 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy, is a 110 MW solar energy power plant that will power up to 75,000 homes during peak electricity periods.
"The money we've recovered for these workers is not a windfall — it is their hard-earned pay that their employer was legally obligated to pay them but did not," said Dr. David Weil, administrator of the department's Wage and Hour Division. "Companies that benefit from federal funding must see to it that the money is used properly, and that their workers are compensated according to the law."