Cable Installers Entitled to Overtime Pay

I was working for limfar com. doing contract work but they kept crossing my hours out and putting 8 hrs only, even though after about 2 months i had 115hrs. but there is alot more hours involved when i complained i got laid off.

i was only getting paid piece work and when i was done with my route was asked to help out i asked if i was gonna get paid and was told you'll get a pat on the back. there's more also, just ask.

what comment!

The same way for me, being a cable tech "contractor" does not mean that you have to work 65 + hrs per week and get pay like you worked only 40, there is alot of abuese work from your employer, and ones you start to complain about something, they don't care, that's not the way a company should be run, they should give us some consideration for the job that we do for them

Tom Creighton in Nashua, New Hampshire said: I was working for limfar com. doing contract work but they kept crossing my hours out and putting 8 hrs only, even though after about 2 months i had 115hrs. but there is alot more hours involved when i complained i got laid off.

they cannot do that!

learn security, camera, or fire alarm, and you will get a field, which adds to your invalubility and fire alarm has great credentials, pay, overtime, but alot of responsibility, i feel bad for learning telecom in a way, because there is no organized union, anyways, its dying out. Controls tech for hvac is good too -

You can't fake the funk, dont be led on to promotions either, take it from me, if you wait 2 years, and dont get it, dont think that three, four, or five means it either.
Career telecom

I have worked for LIMFOR CO., as well. I was hurt on the job several months ago. My hand needed surgery and may be permanently disabled. They put me to work just driving, instead of installing. Then they fired me. In the last few days I worked there was a New England snow storm. A car in front of me spun out and I ran right into it in the storm. The Limfor Co. demanded a breath test and would not allow me to work until the results came back. When the results came back clean, I was fired for leaving a small bag of trash in the truck. The owner said that showed him that I had used the truck for my own use. I have been very careful to never use the truck for my own use. That assumption is absurd. My last paycheck did not contain one vacation day I had legitimately taken, and it did not contain pay for the day of the accident, nor the two days following the accident. I am in the middle of a workman's comp claim. I am already in a temporary disabled position because of my hand, which they acknowledged when they placed me in a less active job position. Now I have no workman's comp, no health insurance, and no paychecks. Who do I go to first for help?

Sorry, I spelled the company LIMFOR and I meant LIMFAR CO. in Candia, NH.

Thanks.

MargeL in NEW LONDON, New Hampshire said: Sorry, I spelled the company LIMFOR and I meant LIMFAR CO. in Candia, NH.

Thanks.

You need to contact a workers compensation lawyer in New Hampshire ASAP.

Amtec LLC is the same deal. They schedule you for no less than 12 hours a day, which may turn out to be 17 or 18, then pay you for eight. The piece work is chopped up without due process, and even the straight time is short. In the end, a qualified hard working technician is working for less than minimum wage. Maybe I'll take my degree and two vocations to McDonalds until the recession eases.

I've worked for FTS, Integrall, Wilkins Group and Omni communications which are in north texas. FTS my check would be off between 50-600 dollars every week. Same for the Wilkins Group. Integrall put us on a tiered pay system which included door tags and cancels, they also missed a good majority of my pay. Integrall and Omni both had us do work at the customers house that we did not get paid for. The worst part is Time Warner set up the pay so the contractors do not get paid for what they do on every item and the contract companies all agreed.

Why aren't the majority of you speaking out to your respective department's of labor and filing complaints with any regulatory agencies that oversee fair wage and labor laws?

Minimum wage is a federal law. It doesn't matter if your employer wants to call you an "independent contractor" to justify fleecing you...you have rights.

Do research under flsa...it is a common trend for telecom company subcontractors to rip off employees; however, if all you do is complain online and continue to allow them to treat you like a slave, then you can't expect the laws to protect you, or anyone to enforce them. Keep logs of your hours, keep your route sheets and take notes as to time arrived and time departed. Note the time into the shop as well as the time returned. Keep very detailed notes and then stick it to them with a complaint with your state departent of labor and anyone else you can get on the bandwagon. Call your local news program and suggest an expose about Americans being subjected to migrant workers wages, and how you are being exploited. Someone out there has got to bite...find the angle to expose them. With what Cable companies are charging customers, you deserve fair wages. Start exposing them on Craigslist, call for boycotts, do whatever it takes AND let the public know that the cable companies cannot hide behind the curtain of ignorance by blaming the Subcontracting company who will just change their name overnight and go back to the same practice under another name.

Good luck.

Google 530 relief that will tell you in no uncertin terms if you are a contractor or not.If you are like the 3 sections say then you an or your company are good with the IRS an the labor laws.

I have been working for Wilkins Group inc as a sub contractor for 4 weeks and still do not have a pay check! They always have an excuse why I did not receive a pay check this is my 4th week and still will not receive a check untill the 5th friday! I'm hungry here! LOL This is really putting contract work a scare for me. Are Contractors exempt from Labor laws? I would not think so.

I am entering this as an anonymous post in case One of my supervisors stumble on this but here is the deal where I work. I am an employee (not contractor) for Multiband USA who is a Directv Home Service Provider. We are required to work a 6 day work week and are told we are not allowed overtime. We have been coached by suppervisors to scrub our time so that we don't get overtime and they can work us full routes for all six days. We are told our time starts when we get to our first job and ends when we close (not leave) our last job. By this I mean we close out our work orders from the customers home. Most recently they are saying that on our meeting days in which we have to be at our office at 6:30 am that we are one the clock when we get there and are allowed 1 hr for the meeting then we're off the clock until we get to our first job and then off again when we finish our last job. We are constantly threatened of write ups and termination in our meetings. We are held accountable for jobs cancelled beyond our controll (customer cancellations, no land lord permission to install, customer no shows, no line of site for service). Several of us are documenting what the company is doing and our time on jobs and are considering talking to the labor board. My only fear is that I will be fired when they find out I'm part of it. I have been told that will probably happen and I will be entitld to back pay but will this hurt my chances of being hired else where? Any advice on any of this.

Jennylevi in Los Angeles, California said: Unfortunately, Nicole is right. I have seen a lot of this in my wage and hour law practice. We have even stronger protections in California than those offered under the FLSA, but the telecom companies ignore employees' rights until a class action lawsuit is brought.

I am researching telecom company pay practices. Employees need to let the public know what they are up to today. Most people out here are under the impression that the problem has been fixed because we had a big DIRECTV lawsuit that made the company change their practices - at least for now. But the rest of the industry gets away with the same old stuff.

Is anyone willing to tell more about their experiences with telecoms, whether in CA or otherwise? Has anyone kept the kind of notes that Nicole suggests?

Hello,
We are dealing with a similiar circumstance here in mass, Working for a company called Multiband a hsp for Ditrect. We are contractors and I am the principle, .During the inception of our contract we have been forced ( for fear ofnot having a job) to roll back and replace defective EQ for free. Weekly meetings every wed, before work means we have to leave at 6:00 am to reach their shop by 7 only to discuss remedial things that could have been covered by a phone call and most of the time these discussions have nothing to due with contractors. They usually discuss in house hours etc...We have been at jobs till 10 at night and are micro maneged to the core.
I have allready opened a case with the wage and labor dept however fear of not havinbg a job keeps me from follow through.WIll we be out of work if the dept of wage and labor gets involved?

MargeL in NEW LONDON, New Hampshire said: I have worked for LIMFOR CO., as well. I was hurt on the job several months ago. My hand needed surgery and may be permanently disabled. They put me to work just driving, instead of installing. Then they fired me. In the last few days I worked there was a New England snow storm. A car in front of me spun out and I ran right into it in the storm. The Limfor Co. demanded a breath test and would not allow me to work until the results came back. When the results came back clean, I was fired for leaving a small bag of trash in the truck. The owner said that showed him that I had used the truck for my own use. I have been very careful to never use the truck for my own use. That assumption is absurd. My last paycheck did not contain one vacation day I had legitimately taken, and it did not contain pay for the day of the accident, nor the two days following the accident. I am in the middle of a workman's comp claim. I am already in a temporary disabled position because of my hand, which they acknowledged when they placed me in a less active job position. Now I have no workman's comp, no health insurance, and no paychecks. Who do I go to first for help?

GO TO THE LABOR COMMISIONER AND TELL THEM YOU WERE WRONGFULLY CLASSIFIED AS AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR,
KEEP RECORD OF EVERYTHING AND FIND AN ATTORNEY THAT CAN REPRESENT YOU.

my husband works for cypress communication everything that you are disscussing is so true. my husband works 12- 16 hours a day and yet only making 300-450 a week monday through saturday on top of it they told him to lie about his hours. and charge him for equipments if a customer cancelled they make a surpervisor goes around to check equipment and charged if something was not attached properly.
now if he has an accident with the truck they will deduct $ 1000 from his paycheck. it is so rediculous something smells fishy with this company and it is stinks. cypress is a contractor for comcast

I worked in texas as a contractor and the same thing here. Every time i step up and say something they tell my i can unload my truck if i dont like it. I even printed out the DOL and IRS forms proving that all cable techs are employees and there is not such thing as a cable contractor for the reason of control. we have supervisors and we have appointments and report on the job and finished the job. also that we are the only for of income for the company thous you are a employee. dont contact DOL you will lose a lot of your overtime wage. hire a overtime lawyer. You must do this with in two years of stop working for them. Remember Block Balling is illegal to. you can sue for slander. good luck I have just hired my lawyer. I hope others do the same. Remember charter just paid out 18 million in overtime and now many more cases are coming out. if you file you will win. You are not contractors you are employees. Dont talk to the contract companies them self just go to a overtime lawyer second there is no cost to you under the law. The contract company will have to pay for that. If you lose which you wont you still pay nothing. This overtime includes dispatchers and supervisors you are all owed overtime even you have a salary. Over 40 they have to pay you unless you have a special degree that they use. Which you dont so get up and open the google and search overtime cable contractors you can see everything there. Now stand up same i am!!

google overtime lawsuit cable contractors this will be your life saver

www.iqovertime.com/cable-technicians-unpaid-overtime--41056.html fallow the link i just found today. Stop the mistreatment of installers. They cut or pay by 68% in the last two years

jamais12 in Lake Worth, Florida said: my husband works for cypress communication everything that you are disscussing is so true. my husband works 12- 16 hours a day and yet only making 300-450 a week monday through saturday on top of it they told him to lie about his hours. and charge him for equipments if a customer cancelled they make a surpervisor goes around to check equipment and charged if something was not attached properly.
now if he has an accident with the truck they will deduct $ 1000 from his paycheck. it is so rediculous something smells fishy with this company and it is stinks. cypress is a contractor for comcast

www.iqovertime.com/cable-technicians-unpaid-overtime--41056.html

Mojosolid in Fairhaven, Massachusetts said: Hello,
We are dealing with a similiar circumstance here in mass, Working for a company called Multiband a hsp for Ditrect. We are contractors and I am the principle, .During the inception of our contract we have been forced ( for fear ofnot having a job) to roll back and replace defective EQ for free. Weekly meetings every wed, before work means we have to leave at 6:00 am to reach their shop by 7 only to discuss remedial things that could have been covered by a phone call and most of the time these discussions have nothing to due with contractors. They usually discuss in house hours etc...We have been at jobs till 10 at night and are micro maneged to the core.
I have allready opened a case with the wage and labor dept however fear of not havinbg a job keeps me from follow through.WIll we be out of work if the dept of wage and labor gets involved?

www.iqovertime.com/cable-technicians-unpaid-overtime--41056.html

moonwalk6 in Houston, Texas said: I have been working for Wilkins Group inc as a sub contractor for 4 weeks and still do not have a pay check! They always have an excuse why I did not receive a pay check this is my 4th week and still will not receive a check untill the 5th friday! I'm hungry here! LOL This is really putting contract work a scare for me. Are Contractors exempt from Labor laws? I would not think so.

www.iqovertime.com/cable-technicians-unpaid-overtime--41056.html

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Mojosolid in Fairhaven, Massachusetts said: Hello,
We are dealing with a similiar circumstance here in mass, Working for a company called Multiband a hsp for Ditrect. We are contractors and I am the principle, .During the inception of our contract we have been forced ( for fear ofnot having a job) to roll back and replace defective EQ for free. Weekly meetings every wed, before work means we have to leave at 6:00 am to reach their shop by 7 only to discuss remedial things that could have been covered by a phone call and most of the time these discussions have nothing to due with contractors. They usually discuss in house hours etc...We have been at jobs till 10 at night and are micro maneged to the core.
I have allready opened a case with the wage and labor dept however fear of not havinbg a job keeps me from follow through.WIll we be out of work if the dept of wage and labor gets involved?

Hi Mojosolid,
I was doing some research for jobs on the Internet and discovered the company called Multiband hiring for Satellite Technicians in the Mass. area..
I called them and they said i would have to provide my own truck, but I would still be an employee, (not a contractor)with benefits.Then I would be put on a waiting list till they can provide a company truck
I also, did some more research on any employee complaints working for this company and came across your entry,(I hope you don't mine me replying).
Anyhow judging by your comments, it doen't look like you recommend employment with Multiband.
Any feedback would be helpful
Thanks,
checo

jamais12 in Lake Worth, Florida said: my husband works for cypress communication everything that you are disscussing is so true. my husband works 12- 16 hours a day and yet only making 300-450 a week monday through saturday on top of it they told him to lie about his hours. and charge him for equipments if a customer cancelled they make a surpervisor goes around to check equipment and charged if something was not attached properly.
now if he has an accident with the truck they will deduct $ 1000 from his paycheck. it is so rediculous something smells fishy with this company and it is stinks. cypress is a contractor for comcast

Cypress is doing the same thing here in NC.. they work us 14 hour days, 6 days a week, make us pay for gas, meter, tools, and laptop... they do not care about you at all... you end up barely making minimum wage... had a great manager here, who tried to get some things for us, but they canned him and brought in their own guy... total moron... take it or leave it attitude...

cbleman01 in Burlington, North Carolina said: Cypress is doing the same thing here in NC.. they work us 14 hour days, 6 days a week, make us pay for gas, meter, tools, and laptop... they do not care about you at all... you end up barely making minimum wage... had a great manager here, who tried to get some things for us, but they canned him and brought in their own guy... total moron... take it or leave it attitude...

are you out of greensboro i wanted to work there what you think so take home is 400 or less how much you waste in gas a week how much per install in your pocket

Anyone know an overtime lawyer in Fayetteville, Arkansas for a similar typeof complaint?

Anyone know of an overtime lawyer in Fayetteville, Arkansas?

Jeffrey Kehoe in Fayetteville, Arkansas said: Anyone know of an overtime lawyer in Fayetteville, Arkansas?

www.stateovertimelaw.us/Arkansas.ht

the above link will show you a good lawyer for your case in Arkansas. Fair labor lawsuits are no out of pocket lawsuits but you will give the 30 of your takings. but it will be worth it.

I have my lawyer and the case is moving along well. just dont let your company or old company scare you.

In 2001 Comcast contractors LB&L in West Palm were fed up, they all took 1 day and did not report for work. I worked in the Comcast call center at that time and believe me it was a bloody nightmare. The cable companies dont seem to realize that #1 their inhouse teams can not handle the workload, #2 their lazy techs dont do actual work like climb into attics, bury drop lines, run dedicated lines without cascading splits. and #3 their call center would get bombarded by pissed off customers wondering why the work promised is not being preformed. Comcast was screwed royally. All it takes is 1 day, and tell them Eff You! and let them realize how much they should give a damm about their customers and the people that take best care of them, but it has to be a team effort, and by all contractors, Brighthouse orlando has a bunch of companies to avoid this situation, smart for them and they treat their contractors like garbage, telling them You cant call into our customer care centers, pac teams, HSD supports for help with their crappy equipment, YOUR dispatchers have to handle it, and yet dont even provide any form of training to help them help their customers. Hmm...isnt the customer the most important thing?? Nope their lazy call center reps would rather eat potato chips and watch soap operas then actually work. And the contractor techs are treated worse, Install a job, spend 4 hours busting your butt and their equipment fails and all of a sudden a QA guy is changing a good fitting and saying the tech did wrong and then charge back more then the tech even made in the first place, so now the tech is paying money to complete a job that he did and Brighthouse is not only getting FREE LABOR, but they are actually making money off the techs hard work and not give a damm. Im out of that world, and techs should stand up for themselves and tell em all to piss off!! Dont take it!!

any on knows a school called RSW in carson california.. i know some people that are going to that school and they tell me its great... i also know they have been their for 18 yrs. if given the chance i would like to go there but i would like to make over $60k a year..