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Union leaders say that the infraction went unnoticed for months because the employees at McGarr and White Glove were not unionized...
Last December, Harvard University had to pay more than $4,000 in retroactive wages to three custodians working for Harvard maintenance contractor McGarr Services Inc., which Harvard discovered was operating under two company names—McGarr and White Glove Inc.—in an effort to skirt University policies regarding parity wage. McGarr and White Glove were billing Harvard less than $50,000 annually separately but exceeding $50,000 when their invoices were combined. The companies were listed at the same Brighton, Mass address and a government website showed that they shared an almost identical set of business...
...University should have detected McGarr’s tactics long ago. Instead the underpayment only received attention when the janitors’ union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local 615, noticed that McGarr and White Glove were owned by the same company and brought the matter to the University’s attention. If Harvard is going to continue outsourcing, it must do so responsibly, and proactively work to hold its own contractors accountable...
...McGarr could easily be the tip of the iceberg. No regular, administrative monitor was able to catch the impropriety, and the University remains woefully oblivious to how many other companies are employing similar schemes to cut costs at workers’ expense—and in violation of University policies. Though fulfilling its commitment to pay a fair wage in this case is certainly a positive step, Harvard should be embarrassed that its own rules were skirted for so long...
...also took the University surprisingly long to act on the McGarr case. SEIU brought the matter to Harvard’s attention in February 2003, but McGarr employees did not begin to receive proper wages until May. The University did not pay retroactive wages until six months later...