A federal lawsuit claims Verizon didn’t pay overtime to workers who filled in during a recent union strike by misclassifying them as independent contractors, Courthouse News Service reported. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Eastern Pennsylvania Federal Court alleges Verizon used a “fissured employment” scheme to shed its responsibility of paying workers the time-and-a-half overtime rate required under federal law, even though the temporary workers routinely clocked as many as 91 hours a week.