Home Appraisers – Not Paid Overtime?

Banks may be misclassifying home appraisers to avoid paying hundreds of hours of overtime.  Appraisers can recover unpaid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).  If you are a current or former home appraiser, and this sounds like your situation, please contact us for a free case review.

Background:

Appraisers are responsible for evaluating the value of a home before a bank will provide a mortgage loan.  It’s a demanding job and often, they have to work over forty hours per week and eight hours a day – all without overtime pay and paid meal or rest breaks.  Certain banks have begun to reclassify their appraisers as hourly employees, following litigation against a bank that had similar employment practices.  However, when they reclassified these appraisers, they didn’t give them back pay for all the years they worked overtime as a salaried employee and that’s against the law.  You deserve fair pay for a hard days work.

Do I Have A Claim For Overtime?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, you may want to contact one of our overtime attorneys for a free case review.

• Were you a salaried employee that was recently reclassified into an hourly employee?
• Did you have to follow strict standards and well-defined criteria for each home you appraised?
• When appraising a home, did you have to fill out a checklist that was created by your company?
• Were you told to follow company set guidelines when defining the value or a home, rather than being able to use your own personal judgment?

Contact us if you have worked or currently work as a home appraiser and are not paid overtime.  Click below to fill out our free case review. If you do not wish to submit information online, and would like to speak with someone experienced in these types of claims, please call us at 800-755-0098. All information you submit will be kept confidential. Employers can't retaliate against you for speaking with a lawyer or for trying to protect your legal rights.