Plaintiffs: Julio Navarrete-Cruz, Sergio de Leon and Adrian Salazar on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated
Defendants: LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc. and D&L Environmental Inc.
Date(s) of Disposition:
none.
Complaint
: Navarrete-Cruz v. LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc., et al.
Navarrete-Cruz v. LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc., et al. involves a large contractor, LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc. LVI also used a subcontractor system to avoid paying workers the wages owed to them. One of the large subcontractors used by LVI, defendant D&L, Environmental, Inc., failed to pay many of its migrant workers anything for much of their labor. The plaintiffs were employed cleaning public elementary and high schools.
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