Saguaro Landscaping Pricked with Wage and Hour Lawsuit

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Saguaro Landscaping and Pool Service, L.L.C. and a married couple with control of the business are the defendants in a proposed collective action claiming the parties unlawfully misclassified individuals working as landscaping foremen and technicians as independent contractors rather than employees. Filed in Arizona, the complaint claims the named plaintiff and proposed collective members’ job duties indicated a clear employer-employee relationship with the defendants, and the parties’ intentional misclassification of its workers was done to save money.

“[The defendants] classified their landscaping foremen and technicians, including [the plaintiff and the collective members, as independent contractors to avoid [their] obligation to pay [the workers] one and one half times their regular rates of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week,” the lawsuit argues.

The plaintiff asserts he and his co-workers put in between 60 and 70 hours per week for the defendants without proper and mandatory overtime pay.