VOORHEES, NJ – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment and final order in federal district court requiring a New Jersey drywall installer to pay $725,000 in back wages, damages, and civil money penalties after denying 48 workers overtime pay.The department’s Wage and Hour Division found that P & B Partitions Inc. failed to pay their employees for pre-shift work while they waited for transportation to their jobsites. The failure to pay constitutes a violation under the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime provisions. “Tasks completed to prepare for the job, and in this case, while waiting to get to the