Biller & Kimble has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the current and former “technicians” and “trainees” who have worked at Valor Technical Cleaning, LLC in Ohio.
Plaintiff and his co-workers work(ed) for Valor to complete specialty cleaning jobs. They travel around the country to clean up unattended deaths, decomposition, homicides, suicides, hazmat & biohazards, crime scenes, hoarding, and blood.
The plaintiff claims that Valor has consistently denied the technicians and trainees proper compensation because (1) they neglect to compensate them for each hour of compensable time they work, and (2) they did not, until recently, pay time and a half overtime for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week.
Technicians were denied overtime pay while they were in training because Valor misclassified them as independent contractors. But, this designation was improper—the technician traineess are employees subject to the company’s control.
Prior to January 2025, Valor paid technicians a flat salary plus a per-job “piece rate.” Valor did not pay time and a half the regular rate for overtime hours.
Throughout the relevant time period, Valor neglected to record or compensate for all compensable time worked by the technicians and trainees.
The technicians seek to recover unpaid overtime wages and liquidated damages, unpaid earned wages, along with their costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees.
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