A New Jersey janitorial firm misclassified employees as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime and minimum wage, the U.S. Department of Labor contends.
Investigators with the department's Wage and Hour Division alleged that Heits Building Service of Central and Northern New Jersey and its owner, Giuseppe Grammatico, created a bogus franchise structure to classify workers as independent contractors but retained control over virtually all aspects of the workers' employment.
The department filed a consent judgment in the New Jersey U.S. District Court in which Grammatico&...
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