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Saunders v. Firtel - SC18309 (Employment; recovering unpaid wages and double damages pursuant to statute (§§ 31-71c and § 31-72); definition of employee; breach of contract; dissolution of limited liability company; “On appeal, the defendants claim that the trial court improperly (1) invoked § 31-72 in awarding wages to the plaintiff because the plaintiff was not an ‘employee’ of Adco within the meaning of § 31-72, (2) calculated the amount of wages awarded to the plaintiff for 2004 by failing to prorate the plaintiff’s salary on the basis of the number of months that he had worked in that year, (3) awarded double damages to the plaintiff pursuant to § 31-72, and (4) ordered the dissolution of Barbur.”)

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