From JDSupra, Richard Reibstein discusses a recent lawsuit in which a security guard is suing the security company alleging they were misclassified as independent contractors. Richard writes:
SECURITY COMPANY SUED BY GUARD IN CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FOR IC MISCLASSIFICATION IN NEW YORK. A security company and its owner have been sued by a guard in a proposed class and collective action lawsuit filed in a New York federal district court. The plaintiff claims that the company, Pinder Security Systems, Inc. and a related firm, which hired him and other security guards to provide security services at retail stores and restaurants throughout New York City, improperly treated him and other security guards as “self-contractors” instead of employees and failed to pay them minimum wage or overtime for hours worked over 40 in a workweek. The complaint, which is short on details, alleges that the companies set the security guards’ schedules each week, required them to wear a uniform bearing one of the companies’ logos, and mandated that they clock in and out of assignments by texting to the companies specific photos of the restaurants or retail stores to which they were assigned. Ingram v. Pinder Security Systems, No. 1:26-cv-02712 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 2, 2026). We previously published a blog post about a key IC misclassification case involving off-duty police officers serving as security guards.