Kaplan, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuits, told 8News that workers being misclassified as independent contractors is “extraordinarily widespread in the construction industry.” The new General Assembly Building is still under construction. “The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done,” the IRS’ guidelines state. “Labor brokers or labor subcontractors provide workers to Capital Interior, but Capital Interior maintains many of the traditional functions of the employment relationship with these workers,” the lawsuit claims, “including setting the workers’ schedules, providing the workers with direct and indirect worksite supervision, setting or influencing worker’s rates of pay, and maintaining, as a practical matter, the power to fire or demote workers.” Construction on the new General Assembly BuildingĪccording to Virginia code, which the lawsuit claims was violated by the defendants, an individual who performs services for money is presumed to be an employee of the person who pays them, unless it is determined that they are an independent contractor under guidelines from the Internal Revenue Service. It argues that these laborers did not engage “in work that is customarily an independently established trade,” but instead had an employer-employee relationship with Capital Interior and its subcontractors. and RDIC, Inc., to hire workers for its projects. 1, alleges that Capital Interior Contractors, a Richmond-based commercial construction company that specializes in drywall, used two labor brokers in Chesterfield, GTO Drywall Inc. The most recent lawsuit, submitted on Dec. Two law firms, Handley Farah & Anderson and the Kaplan Law Firm, filed both lawsuits on behalf of workers who say they were not paid overtime after being intentionally misclassified as independent contractors instead of employees. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Since mid-October, two federal class-action lawsuits alleging unfair labor practices by multiple companies in the commonwealth have been filed in the U.S. (WRIC) - Laborers hired to work on some of Virginia’s major construction projects, including the new General Assembly Building and Virginia Commonwealth University’s new outpatient facility in Richmond, are accusing the subcontractors that employed them of wage theft in two federal lawsuits. It creates maximum convinience and comfort for its residents and visitors, meeting the dynamic demands of the contemporary business environment while becoming recognized as a new landmark of the city due to its contemporary architecture and dynamic visual appearance.RICHMOND, Va. The concept of the project is based on а search for a PRACTICAL but also EXCITING building, which combines some of the most important features for a successful real-estate project. The concept design is developed in cooperation with the famous Atkins Design Studio – designers of the famous Burj Al Arab in Dubai and many other contemporary architectural landmarks. It consists of a 126-meter high office tower and a second 40-meter high office building, seated on a retail podium, and an underground car park. The project has the potential to become one of the new architectural landmarks of Sofia. Capital Fort is a multifunctional development situated in one of the fastest growing business districts of the Bulgarian capital – at the south-east “gate” of Sofia city.
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