January 29, 2015
A group of DirecTV Inc. technicians asked the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in Miami on Thursday to consolidate 41 Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuits, arguing that their relationship to the satellite provider, which allegedly misclassified them as independent contractors, is the same across all the suits.
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.