Lawsuit Against GCB Services Calls for Change in Pay Practices

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GCB Services, LLC has been named as the defendant in a former employee’s proposed collective action that claims he and other workers should have been paid overtime wages. As a field engineer, the plaintiff was supposedly responsible for installing and integrating telecommunications equipment on cell towers and, according to the suit, would often work more than 40 hours per week due to the nature of the job. He argues that the defendant misclassified field engineers as independent contractors in an effort to avoid paying them overtime wages.

The suit argues that GCB “hired/fired, issued pay, supervised, directed, disciplined, scheduled and performed all other duties generally associated with that of an employer,” meaning its workers should have been afforded all the benefits of an employer-employee relationship. Instead, the complaint alleges, field engineers were paid a fixed daily rate regardless of their hours worked and were denied time-and-a-half wages when they worked more than 40 hours per week.