Lowe's Agrees to Settle Misclassification Complaint for $6.5 Million

Lowe’s Home Centers agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it violated California law by classifying workers who provided installation services to its customers as independent contractors rather than employees.Lowe’s “strongly denies any wrongdoing,” including a claim that it exercised sufficient control over the installation workers such that they should have been classified as employees instead of independent contractors. And plaintiff Ronald Shephard, who filed the class-action complaint in June 2012, says he and other members of the cla...