April 2013 Archives

In order to pursue any claim for unpaid overtime wages, workers first need to know they have a right to legal representation and a right to be compensated for all hours worked. In cases where the employer has illegally treated employees as "Independent Contractors" just to avoid paying overtime, large groups of people can be denied fair wages based on a single illegal labor misclassification. In a fair labor standards act collective action, as these cases are called, getting the message to misclassified independent contractors is the first hurdle in every case. The ongoing FLSA lawsuit brought by Nacht Law Firm and co-counsel at Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC on behalf of a group of cable installers against GAB presented one such challenge.