Legal Opinion
Benion v. Lecom, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided September 30, 2018No. Case Number 15-14367PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID M. LAWSON, United States District Judge *835The plaintiffs allege that they were employed as cable television installers by the defendants, who misclassified them as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime premium wages required by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq. The Court denied the defendants' motion to dismiss the FLSA claim and conditionally certified the case as a collective action. After the complaint was amended to add defendants Joseph Lentine and Jeffrey Gendron, and the parties completed discovery, they filed…
2Cases cited43 opinions
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- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,768 Phil A. Street and Clyde H. Street v. J.C. Bradford & CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1990
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3Cited by7 opinions
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