Former Cattoira Montessori Teacher Files Unpaid Overtime Suit

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Miami private school Cattoira Montessori and its two owners are staring down a lawsuit filed by a teacher who says she was not paid proper wages for overtime work.

The plaintiff says she worked at the school for an hourly pay rate of $18 from September 2015 to December 2016. In addition to working throughout the school day, the lawsuit says, the plaintiff was regularly required to teach music lessons into the evening, which resulted in her working 45 hours each week. The case claims the teacher was deprived of lawful time-and-a-half overtime pay and, instead, received just $20 an hour for her overtime work. As the complaint tells it, the plaintiff was misclassified by the defendants as an independent contractor when it came to her extra hours:

“Instead of properly compensating Plaintiff time-and-a-half her regular hourly rate as an employee for the hours she worked over forty (40) each week, Defendants required Plaintiff to accept payment as a 1099 independent contractor for the additional work she performed even though Plaintiff’s performance of these duties was still subject to the dominion, control, and ultimate supervision of Defendants.”