CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL

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CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL - ISSUE 242749 - SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025

Why A Jury Found That Contractor 'Retaliated' Against Undocumented Craft Worker

Illustration of witness and judge

A call to the boss's office and an arrest seemed to have been coordinated.

August 22, 2022
Richard Korman - Engineering News-Record

On May 10, 2017, a Boston wall taper who had broken his leg in a fall from a ladder during work six weeks earlier took his two-year-old son to an office of a West Bridgewater, Mass.-based contractor, on the invitation of the CEO who asked him to come and gave the worker $500 to help him get by while recovering.

Reprinted courtesy of Richard Korman, Engineering News-Record

Mr. Korman may be contacted at kormanr@enr.com

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