A Gig app established in Denver has changed its policy and agreed to return tens of thousands of dollars to suspected wages plus interest for employees after an investigation into the city auditor.
The outcome is expected to benefit more than 700 employees Gigklart This year, that according to its website and app, a variety of part -time and full -time functions advertises, The press release of a Denver Auditor’s Office.
The office said that the executive team of Gigsmart has transferred data and records when it was contacted by supervisors.
“Although the companies that were able to hire Gigsmart employees could have been liable for the underpayments, Gigsmart took responsibility and ensured that the more than $ 27,000 that was owed to employees were resolved,” said the office in the release.
Gigsmart also decided in the light of the research that employees would be classified as employees from April instead of independent contractors, who would guarantee a minimum wage, overtime, sick leave and other protection in the workplace.
“We recover millions of stolen wages every year, but it is rarer for us to collaborate with a company that voluntarily changes its business model to prevent wage theft and misclassification,” said Denver -Auditor Timothy O’Brien in the release. “We encourage companies to know and satisfy the wage laws of Colorado.”
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Gigsmart did not immediately respond to an investigation into the investigation and the outcome.
The office previously investigated another GIG personnel company, Instawork, resulting in an order that the company pays for more than $ 2.3 million in refund, fines and fines.
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