GoLocalPDX: Local Company Pockets Worker’s Wages, Tax Dollars, Whistleblowers say
Jose Tandy and workers claim Cornerstone Janitorial hired undocumented immigrants and then pocketed their wages.
A local janitorial company that has worked on publicly-funded projects has been shortchanging its workers and pocketing their wages, according to the claims of whistleblowers.
Wage theft complaints against Cornerstone Janitorial Service of Hillsboro have been filed in Oregon and Washington and whistleblowers allege that the company hires undocumented immigrants and takes taxpayer-funded wages that rightfully belong to workers.
In response, Cornerstone tells GoLocalPDX it only hires legal residents and pays the proper wages.
But an investigation by GoLocalPDX has found that in some cases workers are only paid $12 an hour on jobs that should have been compensated at an hourly rate of $36.
“This is discrimination and racism,” Jose Tandy told GoLocalPDX in Spanish. “I’m being robbed.”
