Business AI-training firm Invisible Technologies Inc. has been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing it of shorting workers' pay, among other alleged labor law violations.
The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, accuses the company of "failure to pay overtime compensation, failure to provide meal periods, failure to authorize and permit rest periods, failure to pay minimum wage, failure to timely pay wages, failure to provide accurate wage statements, and failure to reimburse necessary business-related expenses."
The company also claims workers "misclassified as and treated as independent contractors despite the fact that they did not qualify as independent contractors under California law."
In addition, workers paid through a "direct deposit from Defendant’s payments partner" which allegedly charges workers a fee to access their wages, the lawsuit states.
"Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereon alleges that Defendant engaged in an ongoing and systematic scheme of wage abuse against their hourly-paid or non-exempt employees," the lawsuit states.
In addition, the lawsuit alleges that the company "intentionally and willfully" failed to provide employees with accurate wage statements.
"The deficiencies include, but are not limited to the failure to list the total number of hours worked, the actual gross wages earned, the correct rates
of pay, and the address of the legal entity of the employer," the lawsuit states.
It seeks back wages with interest, plus attorney fees.
The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys Zack I. Domb, Devin Rauchwerger and Jeffrey P. Jackson, of Domb & Rauchwerger LLP, of Pasadena.
Crowley v. Invisible Technologies, Inc., San Francisco Superior Court, CGC-23-610522