08-07-2025
D.C. hotel housekeepers will receive $215,000 in unpaid overtime settlement
Two related D.C.-area cleaning companies must pay $290,000 to resolve allegations that they sometimes failed to provide full overtime pay to hundreds of housekeepers since 2021, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said Tuesday.
In a statement, Schwalb's office said it launched an investigation into the companies Cuzco Facilities Services LLC and Mardone Inc., which does business as J&B Cleaning Services, after receiving a tip about suspected wage theft from the union that represents the region's hotel workers, Unite Here Local 25. The two cleaning companies are legally considered to be a single employer because they have common ownership and management, Schwalb's office said.
