{"id":1434,"date":"2011-03-16T15:28:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2011-03-17T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:30:30","slug":"cracking-down-on-corrupt-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/cracking-down-on-corrupt-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking Down On Corrupt Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/How-to-be-A-Contractor2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1435\" title=\"Contractor\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/How-to-be-A-Contractor2-166x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/How-to-be-A-Contractor2-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/How-to-be-A-Contractor2.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a>New to the job and already gaining support, Marty Morgenstern, confirmed  Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency is planning to  fine contractors who are causing harm to the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Morgenstern intends to protect workers and businesses that are obeying  state rules and punish those who are not. Reports stating that many  licensed contractors are maneuvering around state laws, by not recording  correct payroll information, improper safety conditions and avoiding  paying compensation premiums.<\/p>\n<p>For example Marin County contractor, Christopher J. Augusto Plumbing  Company has had their license revoked for $512,700 in civil fines. The  company has been accused of noncompliance for training and violating a  settlement agreement. This is just one example and many more are out  there preying on those who are unaware.<\/p>\n<p>The California Professional Association of Specialty Contractors is  backing Morgenstern completely and has asked for additional means to  coordinate administration efforts and add field enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New to the job and already gaining support, Marty Morgenstern, confirmed Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency is planning to fine contractors who are causing harm to the economy. Morgenstern intends to protect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[797,796],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-2","tag-contractor-laws-california","tag-corrupt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}