Prophet Manasseh Jordan Ministries Facing Employee Misclassification Lawsuit

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Prophet Manasseh Jordan Ministries and its namesake are the defendants in a lawsuit filed by a former marketing and training department employee who claims she was misclassified as an independent contractor and is owed unpaid overtime wages as a result. The plaintiff, who worked for the defendants from March 2015 through September 2017, claims her job duties—which the case says did not include the authority to set her own schedule or use her own discretion to refuse work tasks, for instance—did not warrant her classification as an independent contractor exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime protections. According to the complaint, the plaintiff worked more than 45 hours per week without a bona fide lunch break or time-and-a-half overtime pay.

The complaint goes into noticeably darker territory in describing how the plaintiff’s employment with the defendants supposedly came to an end:

“On or about September 15, 2016, [the plaintiff] received a phone call from a personal friend of [the individual defendant] whom advised that he was considering a suicide attempt because of a lover’s quarrel with [the individual defendant].

On or about the same time period [the plaintiff] complained to [the defendants] about her overtime hours.

Within a few days after [the plaintiff] brought the [matter] to [the defendants’] attention, [the plaintiff] was advised that her employment was terminated.”