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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Workers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Co., claiming the company wrongly classified them as contractors instead of employees.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Boise, claims that the misclassification denied benefits such as health insurance, vacation and sick leave, and retirement plans to more than 3,000 H-P workers throughout the United States. The suit seeks more than $300 million in damages.
The 33 named plaintiffs, most from the company's Boise plant, claim they qualify as employees instead of contractors under a questionnaire used to determine employee status by the Internal Revenue Service.
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