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Independent Contractor
Can an employee clean the office after hours for a flat fee, or is it overtime?
This question gets asked several times a year. The scenario goes like this … a medical practice gets poor cleaning services from its vendor so an employee asks to clean the office, after hours, for a flat fee. Seems like a win-win solution. The employer receives a clean office and the employee puts some extra......
Plastering contractor misclassified workers from labor “broker”
The Wage and Hour Division in Louisiana announced a recent settlement with Brownlow Plastering LLC in Hammond, LA regarding violations of the overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Company misclassified its workers as independent contractors (instead of employees) and failed to pay overtime. The compan...
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