Residential construction workers in California, Nevada and Arizona will receive $241,301 in unpaid wages after settling a lawsuit against SelectBuild, a subsidiary of BMHC Corp., once the nation’s largest residential construction contractor which supplied labor corporate homebuilding giants such as Pulte Homes.

The lawsuit alleged SelectBuild systematically failed to pay workers for hours they worked, did not pay overtime rates and kept workers off-the-clock while traveling between jobsites and waiting for materials to arrive. Today workers joined LIUNA in a press conference at the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to announce the settlement.

“I hope this victory shows my co-workers and all workers that when we join together and fight for better jobs, we can win,” said Filemón Galván, a construction worker in Santa Ana who will receive $5,750 in unpaid wages from SelectBuild.

Last year, LIUNA released a report, The Newest Victims of the Housing Market Crisis: The Men and Women Who Build America’s Homes, showing that wage and hour fraud is frequent and pervasive in the corporate homebuilding industry.

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