Venetian contractor sued over benefits to trust funds

Wednesday, April 26, 2000 | 10:42 a.m.

The trustees of a Las Vegas labor union trust sued Bovis Lend Lease LMB Inc., formerly known as Lehrer McGovern Bovis Inc., alleging the contractor failed to pay employee benefits to the laborers' union trust funds.

Trustees of the Southern Nevada Laborers Local 872 training trust alleged in a U.S. District Court lawsuit the contractor failed to submit monthly remittance reports and to make timely trust fund contributions. The suit didn't say if the the workers were involved in Bovis' best-known Las Vegas project, the Venetian hotel-casino.

Bovis officials could not be reached for comment on the allegations.

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