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MTC Stiffs Guards and Other Employees $169,105
Loaded on July 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2007, page 22
Prison guards are among the 393 employees of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), a company that shorted $169,105 in wages for work performed.
Filed under:
Management and Training Corporation,
Conditions of Confinement,
Staffing,
Fair Labor Standards Act,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
District of Columbia.
MTC employs more than 2,000 workers at 24 Job Corps Centers and six prisons around the nation. The company was the target of an investigation by the …
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