January 06, 2016
DirecTV technicians on Tuesday shot back against a management company's bid to shake their putative wage class action on the grounds they were independent contractors, telling a New Jersey federal judge that, despite the label, they were really employees protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that DirecTV filed the motion to dismiss. The error has been corrected.
December 14, 2015
DirecTV pushed a New Jersey federal judge to toss a putative Fair Labor Standards Act class action from technicians alleging they were shorted pay, maintaining Friday that the group actually comprises independent contractors and not DirecTV employees.
October 17, 2014
A group of DirecTV Inc. technicians on Thursday asked to consolidate 11 Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuits accusing the satellite provider of misclassifying them as independent contractors to avoid wage-and-hour laws, arguing that the factual issues in the cases are nearly identical.