Labor Compliance Officer, Labor Monitoring Unit

Agency Description:


The New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) is the nations largest municipal housing preservation and development agency. Its mission is to promote quality housing and diverse thriving neighborhoods for New Yorkers through loan and development programs for new affordable housing preservation of the affordability of the existing housing stock enforcement of housing quality standards and educational programs for tenants and building owners. HPD is tasked with fulfilling the Mayors Housing New York: A Five-Borough Ten-Year Plan to create and preserve 200000 affordable units for New Yorkers at the very lowest incomes to those in the middle class.

Job Description:


HPDs division of Economic Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance (EORC) promotes inclusion and economic opportunity while also enforcing legal requirements on existing projects. The Labor Monitoring Unit (LMU) is a department within EORC and monitors affordable housing construction projects to ensure compliance with applicable federal state and local labor laws. LMUs labor compliance officers analyze payroll records and make field visits to affordable housing construction sites to establish contact with laborers and mechanics in the course of performing investigations for wage theft and other labor law violations. Labor compliance officers are required to regularly make unannounced visits to construction sites respond to tips and investigate labor standards complaints.

HPD is seeking a highly motivated individual to join LMUs team of labor compliance officers. The selected candidate will monitor city-financed development projects subject to prevailing wage and other labor law requirements and/or projects subject to the agencys Enhanced Review program.

Tasks will include:

- Monitoring labor law compliance on city-financed development projects subject to prevailing wage and other pay requirements;

- Analysis of payroll records to identify potential wage underpayments and other labor law violations;

- Conducting frequent unannounced visits to active construction sites and documenting observations;

- Interviewing laborers and mechanics both in person and by phone to assess labor conditions;

- Communicating with employers to gather payroll related information and provide labor law education;

- Performing complex calculations to determine restitution owed to underpaid workers on projects;

- Coordinating with internal and external partners to collect information to support enforcement action;

- Writing detailed reports to document monitoring and investigative activities;

Minimum Qualifications

1. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and four years of satisfactory full-time experience in one or more of the fields of accounting auditing criminal justice administration and planning forensic science inspection investigation law enforcement personnel administration police science or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college; or

3. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 or 2 above.


Preferred skills:

- Knowledge of labor law and/or prevailing wage laws and regulations and/or experience related to labor law enforcement;

- Strong organizational written and interpersonal communication skills effective time management detail-oriented;

- Comfortable working both individually and in group settings;

- Computer proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel and ability to learn computer systems and databases required;

- Experience in debt collection;

- Bilingual Spanish speaking preferable.

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Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in 1 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time