Facebook legal battle: staff claim firm 'deliberately' mispay

Facebook has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that it deliberately misclassifies workers in order to get out of paying them overtime – Arstechnica reports.

The suit, brought forward by a Manager who works out of Facebook’s Chicago office, lays out that herself, and countless other Facebook workers, are illegally classified as managers – depriving them of overtime pay.

The suit explains that these managerial positions, called ‘CSMs’ don’t constitute managerial jobs. "CSMs do not perform duties related to the management or general business operations of Facebook. Rather, CSMs’ duties constitute the principal production activity of Facebook as a social media and marketing platform," the suit explains.

Management positions lawfully enable companies to withhold overtime pay, which is one and one-half times regular pay—after an employee works 40 hours in a week.