Workers for a water-filtration system sales company should have been compensated for their time for answering calls from home and being on-call to assist other workers, a federal judge said in a ruling in which he addresses a growing trend of employees being “misclassified” as independent contractors to avoid liability.
U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York awarded more than $137,500 to two employees of Aqualife, which sells filtration systems to Russian-speaking communities in New York City and beyond. Both plaintiffs claimed independent contractor status on their tax returns.
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