Norwin Technologies Facing Wage and Hour Class Action for Unpaid OT

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Norwin Technologies, an IT consulting firm, is the defendant in an ex-employee’s proposed collective/class action complaint that claims network security consultants were not paid proper wages. The plaintiff, who worked for the defendant from March through July 2016, claims he was hired on a “contractor basis,” with all payments subject to applicable withholdings.

The case claims the plaintiff and proposed collective members regularly worked more than 40 hours per week, yet the defendant refused to pay the workers even at a straight hourly rate for their overtime hours. When the plaintiff would submit timesheets that reflected he had worked more than 40 hours in a week, the defendant would reject these logs and, instead, effectively order him to submit a false timesheet. After a while, the complaint says, the plaintiff gave up on submitting accurate records of his worktime to the defendant:

“[The plaintiff] stopped submitting the ‘timesheets’ showing he worked more than 40 hours not because he was acknowledging he did not work more than 40 hours in workweeks, but because [the defendant] made it clear it would not approve those ‘timesheets’ showing more than 40 hours worked and ordered him to no longer submit such ‘timesheets’,” the lawsuit alleges.