Lakewood, NJ – Yesterday, several dozen protestors appeared unexpectedly at Oorah’s headquarters in Lakewood, NJ. From all appearances, they were protesting that Oorah had done something to them… but nothing was further from the truth.
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“If we hire a mason and he doesn’t pay his employees, how is that our fault?” asks Yehudah Meth, spokesman for Oorah. “This contractor must be having financial issues and so he attempted to remove his burden by sending his employees to us.”
After receiving the majority of payment for work it had been contracted to perform and then being put on a payment schedule, Fairmount LLC of Brooklyn, NY, grew impatient with Oorah. So Fairmount upped the ante and called in the Department of Labor. The DoL subsequently visited Oorah’s camp, reviewed its records and payroll, and gave Oorah a clean bill of health.
“A contractual dispute with a contractor or sub-contractor is not atypical,” said Meth. “What is out of the ordinary is this contractor’s aggressive misuse of the Dept. of Labor. Then having received no satisfaction from that route, his new tactic was to send his employees—who apparently he has not paid—to protest at Oorah. It was all for show.”
Oorah has many employees, both in Lakewood, NJ, and upstate New York. All of them are paid on time. “Our exemplary employment history is a matter of public record,” said Meth. “It should be known that the people who visited us today were never Oorah employees, nor have we ever had any agreements with them whatsoever. We don’t know what their employer promised them, what their wages were, nor whether or not he actually paid them. We regret if their actual employer—our contractor—stiffed them or duped them in any way and hope they will pursue Fairmount LLC by all legal means at their disposal. Further, we hope the Department of Labor is looking at Fairmount LLC’s records as carefully as they examined ours.”
that is oorahs story what are the protesters saying
Are any of these protesters in this country legally?
Its Oorahs’ responsibility to screen its contractors and their subcontractors to assure that they are fully compliant with federal and state labor laws and are fully insured and bonded. There are many cases where unpaid workers have sucessfully put liens on projects where they haven’t been paid so Ooorah should not assume they have no risk.
this is a typical story when the contractor wants to be a ganev and not pay his employees. how oorah gets in the picture i dont understand its between the employees and the contractor
Protest signs in Spanish? About as useful and counter-protest signs in Hebrew.
Oorah can’t be liable if the company is insured and bonded yet picks up day laborers from the side of the road…
#1 their story sorry if DOL says after their investigation there is nothing there then they are clean and as to those workers arewthey here legally most of them are swifter then you may know and just an alegation of fraud is usually enough to get them money even if not owed
To comment number 4…there is no way to stop a contractor ..no matter how sterling their reputation..from stiffing their workers..To blame Oorah is wrong. Blame the contractor for abusing his workers…and the union for going after the wrong party.