Resource: Navarrete-Cruz v. LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc.

Navarrete-Cruz v. LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc., et al. involves a large contractor, LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc. LVI also used a subcontractor system to avoid paying workers the wages owed to them. One of the large subcontractors used by LVI, defendant D&L, Environmental, Inc., failed to pay many of its migrant workers anything for much of their labor. The plaintiffs were employed cleaning public elementary and high schools.