<< /StructParents 16 /Contents [143 0 R 144 0 R 145 0 R] I have so many reasons to be involved with this. 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. /Group 151 0 R 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. It is a major problem statewide. endobj A former employee or current one can file a lawsuit for unpaid wages. /Parent 8 0 R /Annots [] /Subtype /XML This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License 2023 Online Legal Media. endobj /Tabs /S Employers never know when a relationship will deteriorate in the future, so compliance is essential. /Annots [] 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.. Supervisors play a critical role because employees will most likely ask them whether after-hours work should be recorded on a timecard. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. She ended up being terminated for missing class and not returning to the store because she was sick with diabetes. /PageMode /UseNone Taking the responsibility to ensure that employees are working at times clearly set by policies, as well as training supervisors, and limiting access to technology are recommendations to meeting workplace best practices under FLSA. Low payroll hours to operate a store that is open from 8am - 10pm 7 days a week. Great company.I am already part of this law suit for the 15 hours a week I worked off the clock as a key and asst. I feel I would be included in this lawsuit as well. When you are working all those hours all the time you forget to get clocked in or or after a long 13 hours. 27 0 obj less than half of my shift, meanwhile ive been out of work because of it and covid related problems. Then This year I suddenly needed to move, so I transferred to a new store location. The employer expects availability after hours, the potential liability for unpaid hours increases because the employer reasonably should have known that work was being performed. These are violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and can give rise to an overtime pay lawsuit. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] /Type /Page /Contents [73 0 R 74 0 R 75 0 R] I did so. The attorneys at Capstone Law APC are licensed to practice in the State of California. Top Class Actions is a legal news source % Altering shift times is common way of working off-the-clock, as well as working during lunch breaks. The job cost me my first babysitter due to working 98 hour weeks. The United States Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), is legislation designed to protect workers in most states. Privacy Policy. What do we use your information for? >> I only worked for the for 3 weeks and worked 19 hours off the clock. I am a dollar general store manager working between 60 - 70 hours per week. 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. /Annots [] 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. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] Due to integration of the FLSA in most state labor law, U.S. employee rights are protected insofar that they must be paid the minimum wage, as well as overtime, and the same compensatory or insurance benefits as other workers in the same role. No response from corporate. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. I don't plan on suing them for 19 hours of free labor but I do plan on stopping them from continue to practice their business this way. >> Clocked out and then worked an additional off the clock shift from 4pm to 7am. I Still work for dollar General and for the pay its not worth it they don't pay enough for the work they want done and its never appreciated we always have new people because people always quit. /ProcSet [/PDF /Text] << Merely paying the employee back-wages is less expensive and litigious than the threat of lawsuit. Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. So, if I clock in at 8 minutes after the hour, The time clock rounds that off to 15 minutes after the hour. GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn., Aug 04, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dollar General Corporation (NYSE:DG) announced today that the judge in the collective action lawsuit pending against the Company in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama issued a ruling during the trial decertifying the class which had . She insisted I go to bank every day before 2, then used it to fire me because she was angry over over not getting her bonus. /Resources << /BaseFont /Times-Bold endobj Specifically, in both lawsuits against BMW and Dollar General, the EEOC charges that BMW and Dollar General did not take steps to reasonably accommodate . /F1 175 0 R www.CapstoneLawyers.com 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. Even went to the store in my pjs sick once to resolve a customer issue. endobj If an employee is working on a project and not completed, might take home and work from there without counting the hours. << This is garbage. Working off the clock is illegal under both federal and California labor laws. Fixed the issue and no one works 10-20 min off the clock anymore. Disclaimer Additionally, because of long lines while waiting to clock in or clock out, workers were cheated from pay they should have received, Terry says. In difficult economic times, employees may even believe that working off-the-clock is an unspoken expectation, especially if the employer fails to specifically discourage them from doing. If you have inquiries about working off-the-clock employment rules, post your legal need on the UpCounsel marketplace. If one ever takes a position over cashier they are subject to interrupted breaks, and forced to remain on the property with responsibility for all issues inside that are above the scope of a cashier's duties. /Font << By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Now they refuse to pay me I still havent recieved any money they claim it was sent out after two weeks no income I quit which I was told by an employee thats what they wanted me to do so they didnt turn in my payroll on time nor my paperless account so it could go in direct deposit so its been 4 weeks and Im still not payed and they are trying to deny my unemployment telling them I quit. << 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. /I0 173 0 R /Contents [153 0 R 154 0 R 155 0 R] I can provide the schedules I worked as I kept them. << New to ClassAction.org? So I work at a Dollar General and we are forced to clock out at 10:15pm on the dot sometimes 10:20, yet we are still at the store doing closing things till 10:20-10:35/40. Share it with your network! Our firm pursues cases in California state and federal courts, as well as in courts around the nation. /Type /Page 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\ Two former employees have filed a proposed class action that claims defendant Dollar General Corporation required them to work off the clock without proper overtime. In their lawsuit against the city, they said the eviction moratorium had led to rent losses of more than $2.7 million at Palmer's Medici project in downtown Los Angeles; nearly $2.8 million at . /Parent 8 0 R /AA 5 0 R I worked there for a total of 6 months, 4 months I was the Merchandise Assistant for Manager. How do we protect your information? endobj Lawsuits can be collective as well. It wasnt until I brought department of labor into it that they finally acknowledged me. /StructParents 2 /Resources 67 0 R I also believe the manager was adding lunch times in for us, even though their was not enough staff to take a lunch. /Tabs /S Working off the clock labor is that which is unpaid or not contributing to overtime pay, and is usually illegal. If you worked for Dollar General at any time from August 23, 2017, until the present and would like to learn more about the case, please call us at 888.314.7449 or send an email to info@DollarGeneralLawsuit.com. 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. /Resources << << /Kids [42 0 R 43 0 R] There are 12,423 Stores. It was refused. /Parent 8 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] And I have got to say it is the biggist pain knowing that I'm not getting paid for the work i have to do while off the clock. Sadly it happens everywhere. /Resources 167 0 R Because of this, Terry says, he and other members of this Class have been cheated out of pay that was due them. FAQ << In fact, a number of our attorneys previously worked for large national law firms and graduated from top law schools, including Harvard, University of Michigan, UCLA, and USC. endobj 47 0 obj >> The question has been answered before Ive had a chance to get through the 4 step clock-in process. >> Oh mercy I have had nothing but problems since the transfer began. /Type /Page I feel it was unjust to beef let go like that after everything I had done for the store after being put in a position and just left to deal with things on my own. /Group 96 0 R 13 0 obj 32 0 obj In essence, the plaintiff claims that instead of giving workers proper overtime pay as is required by law, Dollar Tree pays them a nondiscretionary bonus. I have signed agreements with a law firm and have heard nothing from them. /Type /Page I've went from 130 pounds to 108 due to the stress, overworked, and lack of proper uninterrupted lunches due me according to dg policy. Retrieval of punches and time sheets is limited to very little from the compass system (in my case can only retrieve as far back at the beginning of september) but this has been going on since the transfer back in may, a period of 4 months that I cannot prove using the methods available to associates. Number of wage and hour lawsuits for back pay continues to rise, with considerable focus on failure to pay employees for overtime hours. 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. /Subtype /Type1 /Parent 10 0 R How do we use our Code? We werent supposed to be in the store by ourselves just invade anything happens and I opens the store on my way home Oran and I closed the store alone multiple times just so the door could make money and was never aloud to close the door down while by myself. Capstone Law APC maintains their law office in Los Angeles, California and practices law in the State of California in state and federal courts. This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline. August 04, 2006. /Annots [] >> 5 minutes to the bank is actually 10 minutes. 23 0 obj Oct 11, 2017 7:37 am EDT. 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. /StructParents 21 We believe that these are violations of California's Labor Code, and we also believe that these violations occurred on a systematic basis to Dollar General employees. /Annots [] /Parent 8 0 R About BigClassAction.com Supervisors unwittingly contribute to potential liability by praising employees who work off the-clock to stay within budgets. 34 0 R 35 0 R 36 0 R 37 0 R] endobj Certain employees are considered " exempt . >> endobj /S /S /StructParents 9 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. /Parent 8 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode Please complete this form to request a review of your complaint by an attorney. /Group 56 0 R /Kids [39 0 R] %PDF-1.5 In addition to several health and safety problems, and security issues, I have also experience wage theft. endobj I was manager for 4 years and she was our DM for about 3 months. /S /URI /Kids [40 0 R 41 0 R] /Tabs /S endobj >> >> << /Parent 3 0 R 2:15-cv-00878, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Lawyer directory. I turned in my keys and quit. /Contents [138 0 R 139 0 R 140 0 R] Ive worked for Dollar Tree for 6 years, and I mostly didnt hate it, the store I worked at in Michigan was nice, with good people, there were never any real issues. /Group 76 0 R endobj I worked for Dollar General for 3 years. /Annots [] 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 /Contents [83 0 R 84 0 R 85 0 R] All Rights Reserved. /Resources 102 0 R >> When an employee is instructed to rework a project without pay. >> Plus I don't get any days off if I'm lucky I get one day off a week. If you are a non-exempt employee, and you are being required to work during the time you are required to be clocked out, that may very well be a violation of the FLSA. >> Hire the top business lawyers and save up to 60% on legal fees. We also maintain departments for Mass Actions and Appeals & Complex Motions. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] 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. The DOL awards damages to former employees as a rule of thumb. The FLSA regulations literally state that management cannot sit back and accept the benefits of an employees labor without paying for the time. It was horrible but I needed my job to help with my family and bills. Not to mention to take him home after the shift. >> << I asked for my vacation time to use it. 5 minutes to go to the bab, They fired me for what I think was wrong Ive never done anything wrong I called help desk for register problems and I made a remark about register always broke down have tape it or paper clip the remark was were always Afro energyneer the dm said I would just be wrote up but instead the let me go after 14 yrs, Same here 10 yrs and if called while in lunch I got to go and also during breaks. Stating they could only find 2 hours and some change of time i not paid. Doing so places you under no obligations and does not establish an attorney-client relationship. This is still happening and happened in Illinois as well for years and was literally just changed so how do we go about including Illinois and all the DC3 associates in this lawsuit as it has not only happened in California but here in Illinois as well? >> Some employers maintain employees who work after hours thinking they are helping the company by not recording the time. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. << /I0 170 0 R /ProcSet [/PDF /Text] >> /Resources << /Type /Metadata In the lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Nashville, Mary Clark, a former assistant manager at a Dollar General Store in Moulton, Ala., and Michelle Shannon, a former assistant manager at a store in Cullman, Ala., said they were required or permitted to work off the clock before and after regular shifts. Terms and Conditions. /Group 131 0 R A Dollar Tree wage and hour lawsuit claims the popular discount chain has been short-changing its employees by using an unfair time clock system. The Company store support center is located in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. 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? This is a frequent thing for DG.