Did you book jobs through Instawork, Nowsta, Qwick or Tend in California from 2019 through 2022? You may have been misclassified and may be owed certain benefits.
California protects on-demand workers, independent contractors, temporary and gig workers from hiring practices that deny them their legal rights to certain benefits, such as overtime, meal breaks and health insurance. If you booked jobs through Instawork, Nowsta, Qwick or Tend in California, your worker status may have been misclassified, and companies may have profited from your work by not providing you with reimbursements or other benefits to which you were entitled.
Misclassification of workers is illegal, and California is particularly harsh with companies that attempt to skirt employment law.
Companies flout the California law and the federal Wages and Fair Labor Standards Act using words in contracts such as “independent contractor” or “independent business partner” in ways that might obscure the fact that you are, even temporarily, an employee entitled to the same benefits as any other worker on staff. Such illegal practices were exacerbated by the change of work habits during Covid and may signal a prevalent problem to people in the workforce. Some companies may go so far as to insist that most of their labor is supplied by independent workers not subject to benefits.
For example, if you are classified as an independent contractor or worker, that may be a misclassification if you have a “district...
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