Lawsuit Seeks to Renovate Zorn Design’s Pay Practices

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Zorn Design, LLC (which does business as Zorn Design Company) and an individual owner are facing a proposed collective action that claims the defendants misclassified laborers as independent contractors to avoid paying them premium overtime wages. The plaintiffs claim they were paid $20.00 per hour to “renovate, remodel and redesign” homes for more than 40 hours per week. Instead of receiving time-and-a-half wages for the hours they worked over 40, the suit alleges, the men were paid their regular rate for all hours worked.

The case argues that the plaintiffs and other workers should have been classified as employees given the level of control the defendants exercised over their schedules, assignments, and employment conditions. Specifically, the plaintiffs claim the company controlled their hours, pay rates, and equipment used. Further, workers allegedly had “a continuing relationship with Defendants”; performed services that were an “integral part” of the business; and were “economically dependent” on their employers – qualities the case says characterize an employer-employee relationship.