Your Tax Dollars At Waste, Courtesy of Tony DeLuca

Filed in National by on April 4, 2012

And courtesy of Jack Markell, who continues to enable Tony DeLuca.

If you have forgotten this piece of essential reading, shame on you! Actually, let me lead you through the gist of it:

Aided and abetted by a former deputy attorney general by the name of Linda Carmichael, who may or may not have ever cracked a law book, (Tony) DeLuca has arbitrarily made rulings in prevailing wage cases that have cost contractors tens of thousands of dollars.

Two roofing companies are suing the Delaware Department of Labor claiming an office run by Senate President Pro Tem Anthony DeLuca is not properly enforcing labor laws and thwarting contractors from appealing prevailing-wage decisions.The lawsuits, which have been joined together in Superior Court, stem from DeLuca’s Office of Labor Law Enforcement trying to force the companies to pay a sheet-metal workers wage rate for installing foam insulation on a metal roof — nearly tripling the hourly rate for the workers.

In other words, DeLuca is claiming that installing foam installation onto a metal roof warrants a sheet metal workers’ wage rate of $61 an hour, not a composite roofers’ rate of $21/hour. I grant you that, while this appears questionable on its face, I don’t know what the law says. Neither does DeLuca:

In court documents, internal records and interviews, Department of Labor officials have offered little justification as to why the companies must pay a higher rate.

Well, the lawsuit is currently taking place in Superior Court. From the Court Docket:

April 2-6, 2012

3 N09C-11-063

JAP THE ROOFERS INC, D/B/A TRI-STATE THE ROOFERS,
AND
H.K. GRIFFITH, INC., PLAINTIFFS
VS
DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, DEFENDANT
4 DAY BENCH TRIAL

Party                Party                                                                                  Attorney
PLTF               ROOFERS INC                                                                G. KEVIN FASIC
PLTF               H K GRIFFITH INC                                                       JEFFREY M WEINER
DEFT              DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR                 JOSEPH C HANDLON
DECLARATORY JUDGMENT

So, you’ve got a 4-day bench trial in Superior Court with the Department of Labor as defendant, all because Tony DeLuca refuses to explain why he made the decision he made. I can viscerally feel the wasted dollars being flushed down the drain.

I once again ask Jack Markell: Why do you continue to enable this thug? At some point, I’d really like an answer. Now would be nice.

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  1. Jason330 says:

    I can only come up with two possible reasons; DeLuca saved Markell’s life in ‘Nam. OR, DeLuca is in possession of pictures from the 1993 NEXTEL Christmas party.

  2. mediawatch says:

    Since the first option is impossible, it must have been one hell of a Christmas party.