{"id":86698,"date":"2010-07-07T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/directv-field-service-provider-faces-lawsuit-from-technicians\/"},"modified":"2010-07-07T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T13:01:08","slug":"directv-field-service-provider-faces-lawsuit-from-technicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/directv-field-service-provider-faces-lawsuit-from-technicians\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV Field Service Provider Faces Lawsuit from Technicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-06-10] A class-action lawsuit was filed July 1 against <strong>DirecTV<\/strong> field service provider <strong>Multiband Corp<\/strong>. on behalf of satellite installers and technicians who claim they were treated as independent contractors when they should have been treated as employees.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The lawsuit claims that because Multiband exercised substantial control over their work, the satellite installers and technicians should have been compensated for overtime pay.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cLike the Department of Labor, we are focusing our attention on so-called \u2018independent contractors\u2019 because we truly believe that this is a rampant problem in many industries, especially in the cable and satellite television arena. These installers work extremely long hours, are usually paid only what they earn in \u2018piece-rates,\u2019 and work under the control of companies who operate a scheme to avoid paying overtime. It\u2019s not right,\u201d the Plaintiffs\u2019 attorney Rachhana Srey said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DirecTV and Multiband have not commented on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-06-10] A class-action lawsuit was filed July 1 against DirecTV field service provider Multiband Corp. on behalf of satellite installers and technicians who claim they were treated as independent contractors when they should have been treated as employees. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The lawsuit claims that because Multiband exercised substantial control over their work, the satellite installers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}