Vivint Sued by Employees Over Rampant Wage Problems

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A class action has been filed against Vivint, Inc. on behalf of current and former employees who did not receive pay raises promised by the company for the completion of field training. The suit, filed by two plaintiffs whose situations are almost identical, also seeks to cover those who were wrongfully terminated in retaliation for seeking back-pay owed and overtime adjustments pursuant to the withheld raises.

Filed in Mississippi, the lawsuit alleges Vivint promises security system installers a $1 per hour raise as soon as they complete field training. The plaintiffs claim they did not start receiving this small hourly pay raise until more than a year and a half after completing field training. The non-payment was brought up at a 2013 Mississippi company meeting, during which multiple other installers backed the plaintiffs’ claims. Four weeks after this meeting, the plaintiffs finally began receiving their adjusted paychecks with the promised hourly raise. Despite the concession, the wage problems continued.

When one of the plaintiffs pressed his superiors on receiving back pay and overtime adjustments in step with raise, his legally acceptable demands were reportedly shot down time and again by a constantly fluctuating team of supervisors. After being led on for more than a year about receiving back pay he was owed, the plaintiff claims he was wrongfully terminated over fabricated claims that he didn’t show up to his job. “The true motive for the (wrongful) termination of [the plaintiff] was malicious and unlawful retaliation for [the plaintiff] continuing to push the issues of owed back-pay and owed overtime adjustments,” the lawsuit states.