Deputy Director for Labor Monitoring Unit Division of Economic & Regulat

About The Agency

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

• We maintain building and resident safety and health
• We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
• We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

The Office of Economic Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance (EORC) leads the agency’s effort to promote 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. LMU’s 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.

The Office of Economic Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance is composed of 5 divisions:

• Labor Monitoring Unit (LMU)
• Integrity Review Unit (IRU)
• Engineering Audit Division (EAD)
• System Administration & Engagement Services (SAES)
• Economic Opportunity & Inclusionary Program (EOIP)

As the Deputy Director of the Labor Monitoring Unit, you will serve under the direction of the Director for Labor Monitoring Unit with great latitude for independent judgment and decision making, liaise with state and local government entities, conduct high level policy analysis, and make recommendations pertaining to government regulations.

Duties of the Deputy Director of Labor Monitoring include responsibility for the day‑to‑day management and supervision of staff involved in important, difficult, and complex activities dealing with oversight and policy in the areas of procurement, due diligence requirements, contractual requirements, prevailing wage, and labor law enforcement.

The Deputy Director of Labor Monitoring works in close coordination with the United States Department of Labor, New York City Department of Investigations, and other enforcement entities.

Your role will be subject to but not limited to supervising/guiding a team of labor compliance officers monitoring for labor law compliance on affordable housing construction projects. The deputy director reviews the compliance officers’ caseloads and ensures that all necessary compliance activities are completed efficiently and on a timely basis. The Labor Monitoring Unit enforces applicable prevailing wage laws and monitors contractors subject to enhanced scrutiny.

The Unit reviews payroll and related records, conducts worker interviews on job sites, and investigates possible violations. Additionally, staff calculate and issue contractor payment with holdings due to violations; authorize worker payments when underpayments are detected; authorize contractor payments; and provide technical assistance to agency staff and contractors.

• Guide the analysis of certified payroll to ensure accuracy and integrity.
• Review and analyze site visit reports, findings, and underpayment investigations.
• Review labor law complaints received and guide next steps.
• Guide investigations and review completed investigations for the Director’s review and approval.
• Prepare enforcement notices for the Director’s review and approval.
• Review computations to ensure underpayments are accurately computed.
• Assess underpayment cases and determine whether funds should be withheld on a project based on information collected from the labor compliance officers.
• Provide periodic group and individual training to labor compliance officers to ensure currency in payroll analysis and applicable standards.
• Distribute projects to staff based on individual capacity, expertise, and complexity…