Convenience Store Managers Cheated Out of Overtime
Gas station/convenience store managers at nine Georgia locations were cheated out of overtime according to a recent investigation.
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Crown Linen LLC – based in Orlando, Florida – will pay $60,863 in back wages to 15 employees for violations of the overtime and record keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Misclassified Managers Denied Overtime.
Crown Linen, LLC. offers commercial laundry services to hotel clients. The employer incorrectly considered two groups of employees as exempt from the overtime requirements as managers under the FLSA. This misclassification of the jobs as overtime exempt resulted in the employer paying flat weekly salaries without regard to the number of hours worked. This practice resulted in violations when these employees worked more than 40 hours per week and were not paid overtime. The employer also failed to maintain required records of the number of hours employees worked.
Employees not paid overtime because they are miss-classified as “managers” may be owed substantial amounts of overtime.
Overtime for Supervisors Making Less than $35,308
Supervisors and Administrators making less than $35,308.00 would get overtime pay under new U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) Rule.
More than 1 million additional workers would be entitled to overtime under the proposed new DOL Rule. The proposed Rule would go into effect January 1, 2020.