Case: Wage & Hour/Worker Misclassification (D. Mass.)

A Massachusetts federal district court denied summary judgment to Lepage Bakeries Park Street, LLC, CK Sales Co., LLC, and Flowers Foods, Inc. on claims under the Massachusetts Wage Act and Massachusetts Minimum Fair Wage Law brought by distributors who alleged they were misclassified as independent contractors, finding that despite the distributors forming their own company through which they contracted with defendants, a reasonable trier of fact could determine they performed services for defendants and were thus employees entitled to wage protections under Massachusetts law.

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