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Steve Nash Fitness World lawsuit highlights widespread problem: Global BC

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Steve Nash Fitness World is facing a class-action lawsuit over allegations it doesn’t properly pay employees, largely due to the misclassification of employees as independent contractors.

A Vancouver employment lawyer at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP reveals told Global BC reporter Neetu Garcha why the fitness industry is a hotbed for exploitation and why wage-related labour violations often occur.

“Gyms, or the fitness industry overall, are hotbeds for exploitation because they contain both of those things: a lack of information [for employees] and miss-classification,” the lawyer said.

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Toronto employment lawyer Lior Samfiru, co-founding partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, the employment lawyer.

Lior Samfiru

National Co-Managing Partner

Lior Samfiru is a Founding Partner of Samfiru Tumarkin LLP and Practice Leader for the firm's Labour & Employment Law Group. His experience in countless successful cases and mediations on behalf of employees and employers, as well as his continued advocacy for the rights of workers, makes him one of the most skilled and sought-after labour and employment lawyers in Canada.

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