Supreme Court for the State of New York County of Kings
Collective ActionPlease read this notice carefully
If you worked as an Account Executive for Thumbtack between June 20, 2022 and June 20, 2025, and did not sign an arbitration agreement, you may be eligible for a payment from this settlement. Key deadlines are listed under Important dates below.
Deadline to submit or postmark Opt-In Forms
You must submit or postmark your Opt-In Form by this date to receive a payment from the settlement.
Deadline to opt for Electronic Payment
Elect electronic payment by this date; otherwise your payment will be sent by mailed check.
Dates are subject to change; check back for updates.
Hanes, et al. v. Thumbtack, Inc. Settlement Administrator
c/o Xpand Legal Consulting
PO Box 51570
Irvine, CA 92619
Email: classaction@xpandlegal.com
Telephone: (888) 557-2773
Fax: (949) 996-7556
Former employees filed a lawsuit claiming that Thumbtack, Inc. misclassified Account Executives as exempt from overtime protections and failed to pay proper overtime wages to those employees.
Thumbtack denies that it did anything wrong. The court has not decided this case in favor of either side. Both sides resolved the claims to avoid the risk and expense of litigation.
Read this notice to understand the settlement. Then, decide if you want to:
Read on to understand the specifics of the settlement and what each choice would mean for you.
Thumbtack has agreed to pay $325,000 into a settlement fund. This money is divided among eligible employees and used to pay for costs and fees approved by the Court, including the cost of settlement administration, lawyers’ fees and costs for the lawyers who negotiated the settlement, and “service awards” for the four people who brought this lawsuit to compensate them for their work on the case.
If you worked as an Account Executive for Thumbtack between June 20, 2022 and June 20, 2025, and did not sign an arbitration agreement, according to Thumbtack’s records, you are part of the settlement. But you need to opt in in order to participate and get money from the settlement.
The calculation of your payment depends on your length of service between June 20, 2022 and June 20, 2025, based on Thumbtack’s records of your number of eligible workweeks as an Account Executive during that period, and excluding any pay periods during which you received 80 hours of short-term disability leave and/or COVID-19-related sick pay.
One half (½) of your settlement payment is treated as wages and subject to withholdings and deductions, and one half (½) is treated as non-wage compensation with no taxes withheld.
The lawyers do not advise you on taxes associated with this payment. Please seek your own personal tax advice.
In a collective settlement, the Court appoints lawyers to work on the case. For this settlement, the Court has appointed the following lawyers:
Pooja Shethji
Outten & Golden LLP
1225 New York Ave, NW, Suite 1200B
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 975-2702
thumbtack@outtengolden.com
Mohsin Mirza
Outten & Golden LLP
1999 Harrison St #1500
Oakland, CA 94612
(202) 975-2702
thumbtack@outtengolden.com
These are the lawyers who negotiated the settlement. The lawyers’ fees will be paid from the settlement fund. You will not have to pay the lawyers directly. You do not need to retain your own lawyer, but you are free to do so, at your own expense.
This notice summarizes the settlement. More details are in the settlement agreement. To get a copy of the settlement agreement or get answers to your questions, contact the Settlement Administrator at classaction@xpandlegal.com or the lawyers for the collective.
To receive your payment and participate in the settlement, you must submit your Opt-In Form. You may complete it online, email the completed form to classaction@xpandlegal.com, fax the form to (949) 996-7556, or complete and mail the Opt-In Form through the prepaid envelope included in this packet to:
Hanes, et al. v. Thumbtack, Inc. Settlement Administrator
c/o Xpand Legal Consulting
PO Box 51570
Irvine, CA 92619
The Opt-In Form must be submitted by the deadline shown under Important dates. If you submit your Opt-In Form, you will “release” your claims, which means you cannot sue Thumbtack for the same issues alleged in the case. A full copy of the release is included on the Opt-In Form and available in the settlement agreement.
If you have questions about your estimated settlement payment, you may contact the Settlement Administrator at classaction@xpandlegal.com or toll-free at (888) 557-2773 (fax (949) 996-7556).
If you return a properly completed Opt-In Form to the Settlement Administrator by the deadline, your settlement payment will be sent by mail unless you select electronic payment. You can select electronic payment either as part of the Opt-In Form or on this settlement website.
The electronic payment (if elected) or settlement check (which must be cashed within 120 days) for your share of the settlement will be sent within 21 days of the deadline to submit Opt-In Forms. (The deadline may be adjusted to provide additional time for collective members whose notices are returned as undeliverable and re-mailed.) If you do not choose to receive an electronic payment and do not cash or deposit your settlement check within that 120-day period, the uncashed check will become void, but you will still release your claims.
You do not have to be part of this settlement. If you do not want to be part of this settlement, you should do nothing.
If you do not submit your Opt-In Form by the deadline shown under Important dates, you will not be a part of the settlement or release anything.
If you do nothing, you will not get any money. You will not be bound by the release.
If you have questions about the settlement or want more information, you can contact the Settlement Administrator or the appointed lawyers for the collective:
Settlement Administrator
Hanes, et al. v. Thumbtack, Inc. Settlement Administrator
c/o Xpand Legal Consulting
PO Box 51570
Irvine, CA 92619
classaction@xpandlegal.com
Toll-free: (888) 557-2773 · Fax: (949) 996-7556
Lawyers for the Collective
Pooja Shethji — Outten & Golden LLP, 1225 New York Ave, NW, Suite 1200B, Washington, DC 20005 · (202) 975-2702 · thumbtack@outtengolden.com
Mohsin Mirza — Outten & Golden LLP, 1999 Harrison St #1500, Oakland, CA 94612 · (202) 975-2702 · thumbtack@outtengolden.com