A federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee recently ordered a Memphis-based construction company to pay back wages to dozens of current and former workers who were underpaid by the defendant.
A federal judge recently ordered a Memphis, Tennessee construction company to pay back dozens of workers the government claims were defrauded out of overtime pay and other wages by the defendant’s intentional misclassification of workers as “independent contractors.” Under the terms of the order, Mulrooney Enterprises will pay 94 affected workers a collective sum of $140,000 in back pay and damages and is further ordered to permanently comply with federal wage and labor laws.
MEMPHIS — A former Tennessee-firefighter recently filed a class action unpaid overtime lawsuit against the city of Mt. Juliet, claiming he and other firefighters are owed thousands of dollars in back wages for consistently working past the overtime pay threshold.
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MEMPHIS — The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Canteen Service was named in a 2015 class action lawsuit on the basis that the department had a common policy of illegally misclassifying Assistant Canteen Chiefs to avoid paying various benefits to those employees.
MEMPHIS — In a major victory for tens of thousands of former and current FedEx drivers, the Memphis-based parcel service recently announced its intention to settle the unpaid overtime wage lawsuit dogging the company for the past several years.