They also claimed they do not have access to my email addresss, which is funny- as I have always been a paperless employee which is how they send my W-2s to me They are also badgering me to return to work, because they want it to appear that i have agreed to accept their insulting 2 hours of pay, that isnt even accurate to what I can actually prove. Our law firm is organized into four main practice areas Labor & Employment, Consumer Rights, Automotive Defects, and Securities Fraud. Merely paying the employee back-wages is less expensive and litigious than the threat of lawsuit. break but i get docked for it. Please enter the information below or call us to speak with Anthony Castillo, Esq. I told her no HR said they were terminating me, but I didn't quit. Because of this, Terry says, he and other members of this Class have been cheated out of pay that was due them. I worked for DG for 3 years, towards the end the manager quiet so I was made manager but still getting paid cashair wages, I had to go to the bank after my shift and I worked plenty open to close shifts. /Annots [] /Type /Page Although some managers may misunderstand they are requiring employees to work off-the-clock, extra work is deemed fine. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. endobj May provide an initial consultation for free. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] /Annots [47 0 R] Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. /StructParents 12 /Parent 8 0 R a day. Please reply with similar experiences and I may DM you with a number you can call to join the suit. But to DG customers come first and employees are replaceable. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] One time in order to keep my boss from losing her job I worked from 7 am to 4pm. /StructParents 4 /Kids [14 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R 17 0 R 18 0 R 19 0 R 20 0 R 21 0 R 22 0 R 23 0 R I asked for my vacation time to use it. Working off the clock is illegal under both federal and California labor laws. << To handle those issues its sad because this company treats employees as only a number instead of part of their team i never had trouvle with anxiety. Jennifer Peters and Rachel Buttry, both supervisors at the Dollar General store, claim in the lawsuit that they were forced to open registers, run returns and void items among other duties, despite the fact that the company employee handbook states that employees can be fired for working off the clock. And I also cannot collect unemployment? /Type /Page 40 minutes taken out of every shift all winter long and not to be paid for it, I dont know what Im supposed to do. The supervisor, Douglas Troester, spent four to 10 minutes on those tasks each day, a total of 12 hours and 50 minutes during 17 months of employment, worth $102.67 at the then-minimum wage of $8 . Phone: 1-310-556-4811. August 04, 2006. /Tabs /S Terms of Service ago. >> /Resources 167 0 R Fair Labor Standards Act: Everything You Need to Know. >> Dollar General Corp. and two subsidiaries are on the receiving end of proposed class action filed out of Illinois that claims the defendants illegally required employees to work "off the clock" without compensation. Currently working on a state comp lawsuit due to Dollar Gen Corp directing employees to work while clocked out on break as well as Dollar Gen Corp directing employees to clock out 5-30 minutes before they're completely done and leave. >> endobj Off-the-clock work may happen when an employee is not tracking their time spent on work activities, but their employer allows it to happen. It was me. 43 0 obj The Company store support center is located in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. /Type /Page /Annots [] /Contents [163 0 R 164 0 R 165 0 R] >> Make sure you are keeping accurate record of the actual hours you are working. Supervisors offer such praise in writing, documenting knowledge of the failure to pay overtime, creating the potential for a knowing or violation. endobj 24 0 R 25 0 R 26 0 R 27 0 R 28 0 R 29 0 R 30 0 R 31 0 R 32 0 R 33 0 R /Type /Page /F1 175 0 R Both circumstances could be a violation of the FLSA. /Parent 8 0 R /Annots [] Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. /F1 180 0 R >> All Rights Reserved. Employers never know when a relationship will deteriorate in the future, so compliance is essential. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] An employee working unpaid may request back-pay, including compensation for liquidated damages. I can't count how many times the closing duties took longer than what the GM had scheduled, and my time was cut back to 10:15. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] that she wanted to originally run my store. /Tabs /S I close every night but 2 nights off. /Tabs /S << UpCounsel lawyers represent the top 5 percent attorneys in the United States, graduating from top law schools such as Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. /I0 173 0 R I just found out my boss was putting in meal breaks in the system when me and other key holders did not take a meal break. So let's say that each employee is expect to work through there lunch (30 min) and manager keys a lunch break in that equals 18,634.5 hours. As part of our commitment to social justice, our firm supports public policy, educational campaigns and legislative efforts to secure and expand the rights of consumers and working people. Forcing other employees to work harder to compensate for the lack of staff. Wal-Mart said on Tuesday that it would pay at least $352 million, and possibly far more, to settle lawsuits across the country claiming that it forced employees to work off the clock.. Read our Newswire Disclaimer. 4 0 obj >> Their Dollar Tree lawsuit alleges violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act because Dollar Tree has not paid minimum wage, paid overtime or provided the required rest and meal breaks. 16 0 obj Each week in was paid 160.00 under the table I received no pay stubs or anything. Our Code serves as a handy reference guide when potential unethical situations arise. /URI (https://www.classaction.org/news/dollar-general-clocked-with-unpaid-wage-class-action) Additionally, because of long lines while waiting to clock in or clock out, workers were cheated from pay they should have received, Terry says. endobj >> /Group 101 0 R Fixed the issue and no one works 10-20 min off the clock anymore. The event of a lawsuit, an employer should not rely on a defense that the employee agreed to violate the FLSA by working without pay. << /Resources 147 0 R /Annots [] /Count 1 >> Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. I took my so called lunch break, I was interrupted as usual to do a return. The job cost me my first babysitter due to working 98 hour weeks. Capstone Law APC maintains their law office in Los Angeles, California and practices law in the State of California in state and federal courts. /Contents [53 0 R 54 0 R 55 0 R] /Type /Page << << D. dolly06 of Griffin, US. 11 0 obj U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England told Law360 that Dollar Trees issue with the certification are beyond the scope of whether a class action is indicated for the purposes of certification.. I don't get meal breaks at all only one smoke break but that's it. >> endobj Can I sue the dollar general for working off the clock ? /Subtype /Type1 Altering shift times is common way of working off-the-clock, as well as working during lunch breaks. 27 0 obj /Parent 3 0 R Countless hours off the clock to keep the store recovered and seasonal put out. Working off the clock labor is that which is unpaid or not contributing to overtime pay, and is usually illegal. >> Hire the top business lawyers and save up to 60% on legal fees. The act of awaiting work when the job is not yet available. /Parent 8 0 R Then manager. /StructParents 0 off the clock. In 2017, TJ Maxx was ordered to pay $8.5 million to California workers in a meal break case. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Top Class Actions is a Proud Member of the American Bar Association, Various Trademarks held by their respective owners. endobj You do not get paid for those 8hrs and if somebody calls out, and you do not have an extra person to cover, you are going in and working more hrs for free. The net effect of Dollar Generals common plan, policy and practice of not paying plaintiffs and class members for all work performed, including all overtime work performed, was a scheme to save payroll costs and payroll taxes and, stay within its budgeted labor costs for each of its stores, all for which it has unjustly enriched itself and enjoyed ill-gained profits at the expense of plaintiffs and other members of the class, the lawsuit alleges. Top Class /StructParents 15 The FLSA states that work that is off-the-clock is the same as overtime not compensated by an employer at a standard hourly wage. I would go in early and stay late to help with freight. /StructParents 14 I took over a store that was under staffed and impacted. Cautious employers are more likely to exercise control over off-the-clock work, and subsequently, prevent work that will be unpaid from occurring. Its nothing to work 60 plus hrs a week. /Contents [143 0 R 144 0 R 145 0 R] Employers should be advised that liquidated damages awards are equal to the amount that would be owed in unpaid earnings. This went on all last winter. Time records can also be kept on timesheets, security logs or software app. Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. We had another assistant go into her position when I did and we were left to run a store not knowing what we were doing completely. /Filter /FlateDecode /Names 4 0 R >> If an employee is working on a project and not completed, might take home and work from there without counting the hours. manager. I was a manager and an assistant manager at Dollar General, District 258. When a store manager arrived I was asked to train this manager to take the store position. When you are working all those hours all the time you forget to get clocked in or or after a long 13 hours. /XObject << /Count 2 They were going to hire someone but I don't know what happened but my main question is why the hell do they need 3or 4 managers for Dollar general. Do we disclose any information to outside parties? According to the news outlet, 38-year-old Eric Sica was fired from his job as a stocking clerk at a Dollar General in Point Pleasant. When I asked for time off my District manager refused to allow the time off. Sears Pharmacies Overtime Pay Claims & Lawsuits. This is a frequent thing for DG. Similarly, unpaid work post-shift, like finishing, cleaning, and returning equipment is off-the-clock. Then when we got an assistant to come in and help we had to do our own schedules so we worked together so we could each have a weekend off, so we would do open to closed opposite weekends so I could see my kids and she could have time with her family, we in turn got yelled at for not asking if that was alright. /Resources 137 0 R endobj I can provide the schedules I worked as I kept them. << /Type /Page >> >> This coming from a district manager. I took it and my keys, sick and was treated like a lowlife even though over the past 5 years I may have called in sick a handful of times. Performing job duties during lunch breaks. /I0 183 0 R /Resources 152 0 R (gI?zX]?woR'`{XAx$u7KX85g}mOu:gKp6/{1[z*4cCG"*k(xjycjmO4w`c1V,k0FEX\4,m`$N5Q2^-P|T(v.?ILI];_D)IMpvR"Q, Beaver et al v. Dollar General Corporation - 1:17-cv-01014. /Length 377 /Type /Font /Contents [177 0 R] New cases and investigations, settlement deadlines, and news straight to your inbox. >> x[mo8O2(")Xu{iR$6zh,J{8 lpygmU,qUWgO/f^ {3{ur3.lqF)QfW':-F`SF"f2XvaG\E1`&~bt*jY8fD?E ;Rf:IM? Xa].W[jga$W!oV\#(xn_Pk2~p D$Yf5vUCHd rXu*&I*/zDY"7oL`cers|)Ya5BD),IxqK\ You have to schedule yourself a minum of 48hrs. California law provides various protections and rights to employees in the state in the areas of wrongful termination, workplace harassment, and regarding wage issues like overtime, minimum wages, meal breaks, vacation pay, and other issues related to compensation. The FLSA requires that employees be paid for all work, even if the work was not specifically requested. /Type /Pages /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] Was denied. >> It feels like a blessing just to get a full 30 min. As a store manager, you are paid for a 40hr work week. You should contact an attorney to provide more information so you can receive more meaningful advise. wouldn't be around much longer so she quit along with one of my cashiers. /Annots [] /Parent 8 0 R /StructParents 9 /Font << /Font << I still am not receiving proper paychecks. endstream The lawsuit alleges the following violations against Dollar General: failing to calculate the regular rate of pay properly, for purposes of paying overtime; not paying at least minimum wages for all . I currently work for DG in the Dallas Texas area as an assistant store manager and my store is always busy. An employee who has been working off-the-clock is often illegal, an attorney may be able to help you file a claim for back pay, understand whether covered by the FLSA or answer questions about the rights as a worker. I started dollar tree in 2017 o work for dollar general for four and a half year and quitt after the manager they hired wanted me to take an extra 15 minutes i refused and when i filled out the application for dollar tree the dm at the time told me that she had fired her from dollar tree because she was taking time away from the employees and on the other hand i started at dollar tree in 2017 and i have worked off the clock many of times and im an asm Ive been told that because of my age that i cant do my job that i cant stock the shelves when we have stockers to do that job. Share it with your network! Wage theft is the illegal practice of not paying workers for all of their work including; violating minimum wage laws, not paying overtime, forcing workers to work off the clock, and much more. >> The information on this site has been created by Capstone Law APC for informational purposes only, and is not, nor is it intended to be, legal advice. And i think also any where in the US people have gone through the same. /Type /Page << endobj Privacy Policy. The plaintiffs say Dollar General maintained a policy of allowing, inducing, and incentivizing store managers to require, force, expect, encourage and/or suffer and permit proposed class members to work off the clock before, during and after shifts. /ProcSet [/PDF /Text] After doing a return a customer came over to the register and asked if I was opening, I replied " that no I would not be opening because I was on break", I then went back outside to finish my break. ul trvK` I$=IXLb/HV7+2^x% /Resources 112 0 R endobj New to ClassAction.org? >> Lawyer directory. We use cookies to help us remember and process registrations, understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. >> /Parent 8 0 R To determine whether you are eligible for filing a wage claim against Dollar General, contact our experienced overtime pay lawyers at (855) 754-2795 for a free consultation. What are your thoughts, my 3rd week of working. An employer in violation of the law by allowing for unpaid, work off-the-clock, or ignoring the activity and not paying the time, rather than communicating where and when the work should take place, is in violation of FLSA law. /AA 5 0 R /Parent 8 0 R ClassAction.org is a group of online professionals (designers, developers and writers) with years of experience in the legal industry. /Filter /FlateDecode << >> We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent. Specifically, in both lawsuits against BMW and Dollar General, the EEOC charges that BMW and Dollar General did not take steps to reasonably accommodate . endobj << /Resources 162 0 R /Contents [73 0 R 74 0 R 75 0 R] Im apart of this lawsuit I want to know how to get payment please get on contact with me. /Parent 11 0 R /F1 45 0 R << 42 0 obj << Plaintiff Sherrell Hall says she started working for Dollar General in August 2016, when she was hired as a "picker" for one of their warehouses. /Tabs /S Working employee's off the clock seems to be a Dollar General Standard. /Parent 8 0 R Because of this, there are long lines of employees waiting to clock in or clock out. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. The question has been answered before Ive had a chance to get through the 4 step clock-in process. Then finally she quit by 2014 i had a new manager dec of 2014 i was up for a promotiin to assistant manager when they found out i was pregnant i was told i couldnt get my promotion until i returned from maternity leave because they would have to pay me for my leave so at 33 wks pregnant i had no choice but to take my leave because aa hard as they was making me work i started having pregnancy complications from not being able to take breaks and lunches so i could eat because we were expected to work through them so i was having problems with my sugar levels dropping i was scared if i didnt take leave i was going to lose my baby or we both werent going to make it i was out of work 8 weeks with no pay because i was denied my promotion soon as i returned i was promoted my the hours on my checks were never what i kept track of because the managers would go to send time in and take hours we worked of so they wouldnt go over their allowed schedule hours because if they did they got fussed at by the district manager because the district managers wouldnt recieve their bonuses i asked the district manager about the managers taking our worked hours he told me he would investigate it to my knowledge no investigation was ever done so i called corperate and they told me that it was the district managers responsibility. /Contents [174 0 R] This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. 44 0 obj The end of the line was this past weekend when I was told I had to bring my doctor's excuse in to my manager within 15 minutes even though I wasn't released to return to work until Monday. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Number of wage and hour lawsuits for back pay continues to rise, with considerable focus on failure to pay employees for overtime hours. Certain employees are considered " exempt . \ALQp I worked with a friend.. /Group 156 0 R endobj I signed paperwork to receive my claim and was told I would hear from them soon as it was mailed. 8#0B"HdFK;G/jvIR &|O4cBy,`,i1%N;ro W"gw~k> $daXL%HWtzmt]f}ig{^,CK?SL^UYuY`by+tzn /StructParents 13 Until i worked for them i gave them 110 percent only to be just one of their casualties and i no im not the only one they did this to how do i become part of this lawsuit to help stand up for people like me, I was a manager for12 yrs with this company.I understand the horror stories.I was terminated after doing what I was told to do.it is unfair I was denied unemployment because I broke company policy and my do would not back me up,he threw me under the bus.so if I can get any legal help or help someone else I would be glad to wither way. The statute of limitations is customarily two (2) years, yet employers are liable three (3) years for intentional violation of FLSA wage and hour laws. I worked at Dollar tree here in Tempe Az was one of the employees that came in off clock to stock because we had so many items in the back he over order . /StructParents 22 /Type /Page The shoddy way they treat there managers is appalling. Doing so places you under no obligations and does not establish an attorney-client relationship. There are 12,423 Stores. The firm also publishes the Impact Litigation Journal, a running commentary on important legal developments in the area of representative actions and other complex litigation. FLSA does not provide a definition of work, but the term generally includes all time when the employee is acting under the direction or control of the employer, or is acting primarily for the benefit of the employer. << Upon my first promotion to a key position, I was told by my manager that I was to stay on store premises and be available during my, "off the clock" lunch. Liabilities under FLSA extend three (3) years back. The company has a rule that a worker may not clock in more than seven minutes in advance of a shift or clock out more than seven minutes after a shift end. DON'T work for DG, I am a store manager for DG and I am to work tomorrow 12/31/17 with no break at all. I've been with dollar general 1 1/2 months after being away from retail for 9 years. Please complete this form to request a review of your complaint by an attorney. Posted on Apr 12, 2012. I'm the last 3 Yrs we have been going thru not having store mgrs.so I've had to run them without help mostly..having to borrow from other stores is almost impossible and I do not get paid a store mgr.salary but I am the store mgr when there isn't one, working long hrs working by myself I'm doing it now and it's affecting my health and when I do call or message my DM he hardly responds is there anything I can do about this? 36 0 obj /Resources << The FLSA regulations literally state that management cannot sit back and accept the benefits of an employees labor without paying for the time. or participates in a lawsuit against our Company or someone working for our Company. /StructParents 20 45 0 obj 2 0 obj /Parent 8 0 R >> I have been with the company since Oct 17 and now it is Sept 18, I have worked through countless breaks without getting paid. endobj I also would also do payroll and other manager duties. 17 0 obj Never fails. Their pay rises are ridiculous they go by a point system i been with this company for 3 years i am always an hour early every day and the manger is very vindictive if she does not like you you dont get hours and their health care sucks i have it and i have to take heart medicine and they wont let you opt out of the RX plan so i dont use it. /Font << << WOW!!!. But I did for several months.First manager was school smart and told no experience they brought in a new manager, I trained her as well. << >> I was manager for 4 years and she was our DM for about 3 months. Find the best ones near you. >> Actions does not process claims and we cannot advise you on the We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. << Featured review. I applied for unemployment. /C [0 0 1] 34 0 obj stream >> https://topclassactions.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, Dollar Tree Wage and Hour Lawsuit Claims Unfair Time Clock System, Social Security Disability application & appeal claim review, Abbott baby formula recall lawsuit investigation.
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