Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell issued a series of citations against waste management staffing firm Quick Temp Inc., its owner Thomas Lauzon and its manager Paul Long. The citations total nearly $1.4 million in restitution and civil fines.

The Attorney General’s office said the citations covered violations for failure to pay prevailing wage, failure to pay minimum wage, failure to pay overtime, nonpayment of wages, failure to accrue earned sick leave, failure to keep true and accurate records, and failure to furnish employment notices.

Quick Temps connected day laborers with waste management clients in the Boston area, but the company reportedly ceased operations in March 2022, according to the Attorney General’s office.

“Quick Temp repeatedly denied their employees a prevailing wage and other benefits guaranteed to them by law,” Campbell said in a press release. “As we approach the holiday season, these issues of wage theft become even more pressing to resolve.”

The matter was initially referred to the Attorney General’s office by Teamsters Local 25, according to the AG’s office. The union raised concerns the company was paying workers less than the prevailing wage rate required by various municipalities’ waste management contracts for work performed as pickers on trash trucks. The union also produced information that employees were required to cash pay vouchers at a local check-cashing establishment, which charged a fee to do so.

SIA has reached out to Lauzon and Long for comment.