/Resources << /Resources 107 0 R /XObject << /Group 96 0 R /Type /Page /Type /Page /StructParents 19 Back in 2014, there was a public-entity lunch break case that highlighted a worker's right to spend his or her lunch break uninterrupted. This Dollar Tree Wage and Hour Lawsuit is Case No. /Type /Page /Annots [] This Dollar Tree wage and hour lawsuit is seeking to certify a Class of hundreds of Dollar Tree distribution center employees who claim that they have been shortchanged on pay and that the companys system of clocking meal and rest breaks is unfair and cheats them of time that should be spent for break time. In 2017, TJ Maxx was ordered to pay $8.5 million to California workers in a meal break case. >> << members' after shift "off-the-clock" work. /Resources 97 0 R Ok I also worked for dollar tree in ga and let me tell you I traveled for them 3 times over 40 miles one way and back and received no pay as I was promised to get paid for the trips so I then refused to travel and they corner me up after having me train my replacement and not telling me anything about it first hem me up and say they have proof I was voiding off things to keep money which is a total lie. 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. /F2 46 0 R Off-the-clock work may result in negligence issues for an employer. Specifically, in both lawsuits against BMW and Dollar General, the EEOC charges that BMW and Dollar General did not take steps to reasonably accommodate . Employees should be clocked in during work. I worked at dollar tree and my manager would often times adjust my hours so he wouldnt get in trouble for over time he made me work. >> I asked for 3 days in a row off it was refused. and our << << 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 was a manager and an assistant manager at Dollar General, District 258. >> >> /Parent 8 0 R I have contacted dollar general hr and i was never on their payroll or have permission to do a lay out. 42 0 obj 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. 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. To be exempt from overtime, an employee must be paid a salary. /Contents [148 0 R 149 0 R 150 0 R] Each week in was paid 160.00 under the table I received no pay stubs or anything. We partner with local counsel when needed in litigation outside California. I ran the store working 98 hours a week with no lunch, and no time off for several months.The district manager lied to the corporation about whom was running the store. I worked 60 to 80 hrs a week . >> Employers expect employees to work or at least to be available after hours. The FLSA requires that employees be paid for all work, even if the work was not specifically requested. The lawsuit, entitled De Jesus v. Dollar General Corporation, et al., is currently pending in Kern County Superior Court, Case No. They gave me my last check but tell me I have to contact ap for my milage pay but ap didnt promise me pay my DM did and I shouldnt have to hunt down my money. /Resources 162 0 R 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. It feels like a blessing just to get a full 30 min. /Tabs /S Off-The-Clock Work Can Trigger Lawsuit 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. /Parent 8 0 R /F1 169 0 R I was fired by what I consider a conspiracy. Read more here: Camp Lejeune Lawsuit Claims. The Company store support center is located in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. /Contents [88 0 R 89 0 R 90 0 R] << >> << /Tabs /S I've worked for Dollar General for 12 Yrs.and almost every lunch break I've lost due to having to turn a key never get a whole 30 Min. I currently work for DG in the Dallas Texas area as an assistant store manager and my store is always busy. endobj % /Annots [] Oct 11, 2017 7:37 am EDT. I was told to work shifts by myself if I have to to keep my hours were they want them to be. Once I had the store turned around and profitable(#2 in district) and had my customer connect numbers in the top 10 in the region my Dm started firing my employees. endobj /Resources 127 0 R >> >> It was horrible but I needed my job to help with my family and bills. /Annots [] 1875 Century Park East, Suite 1000 /Parent 11 0 R /Contents [177 0 R] So basically, most of the time your "off the clock" lunch is interrupted, your working for free. 4 0 obj In Starbucks case, California court says workers owed for off-the-clock There is frequent schedule manipulation, and even claims that there were days I was late or just didnt show up, which is not true at all, and I can prove it with my debit card transactions in adjacent businesses while i was waiting for a key-holder to show up. /Group 101 0 R /Group 111 0 R /Annots [] /Contents [182 0 R] I had a great Dm and great managers around me. >> Hire the top business lawyers and save up to 60% on legal fees. If the employer is intentionally in violation of wage and hour laws, they face far steeper civil penalties. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. I close every night but 2 nights off. 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. /Tabs /S Each store employee's roughly 6 (6x12,423=74,538) This is a rough estimate. Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. Court Decertifies Class in Dollar General Wage and Hour Lawsuit /Annots [] Lawsuits can be collective as well. /Resources << I am a plaintiff in the Dollar tree class action lawsuit. UCLA Labor Center | What is Wage Theft? /XObject << stream /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] We also maintain departments for Mass Actions and Appeals & Complex Motions. /Parent 12 0 R /Parent 8 0 R endobj endobj 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. 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\ I would like to bring this to the federal circuit but we need people from around the country who has experienced the same as the workers in MI. your claim status, claim form or questions about when payments are Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. /Contents [158 0 R 159 0 R 160 0 R] 1 0 obj /StructParents 16 /Tabs /S << >> Never fails. 5 0 obj /F1 45 0 R << One time in order to keep my boss from losing her job I worked from 7 am to 4pm. /Tabs /S 34 0 R 35 0 R 36 0 R 37 0 R] Dollar General Reports on Status of Pending Lawsuit 22 0 obj This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License 2023 Online Legal Media. Clocked out and then worked an additional off the clock shift from 4pm to 7am. endobj I almost never took breaks or lunches but got clocked out for them by my manager. /Resources 122 0 R << >> I have signed agreements with a law firm and have heard nothing from them. It would be nice if the C E O of Dollar Tree would come and work in some of his stores, So he can Understand and feel what employees feel, like the Undercover Boss!!!!! Similarly, unpaid work post-shift, like finishing, cleaning, and returning equipment is off-the-clock. /Contents [58 0 R 59 0 R 60 0 R] /Type /Page Dollar General Class Action Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant /Length 3384 The availability of laptops, smartphones and other devices now let employees carry the office around in their pockets. HORRIBLE. x+ | >> endstream Dollar Tree claims that their bonus pay is discretionary and not always awarded. Privacy Policy. Additionally, because of long lines while waiting to clock in or clock out, workers were cheated from pay they should have received, Terry says. But as I'm reading everyone's comments about Dollar general I have never seen so much complaints. If you were forced to work off the clock or without overtime pay within the past 3 years in California, you have rights and you dont have to take on the company alone. I work any where from 50 to 70 hours a week. 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. Do we disclose any information to outside parties? /Group 66 0 R /Outlines 2 0 R << >> /StructParents 20 I havent heard anything since. /Resources << >> /Annots [] L.A. landlord sues over eviction law, seeking $100 million - Los www.CapstoneLawyers.com /Contents [179 0 R] >> Forcing other employees to work harder to compensate for the lack of staff. /Names 4 0 R I recently quit dollar General as an assistant manager after almost 5 years of working off the clock sometimes til early hours of the morning. 20 0 obj /Parent 8 0 R But to DG customers come first and employees are replaceable. Employers should be advised that liquidated damages awards are equal to the amount that would be owed in unpaid earnings. off the clock. /Group 151 0 R /Annots [] Wal-Mart to Settle Suits Over Pay - The New York Times I asked for a week off after having turned the store around. << Working off the clock is grounds for termination and if someone instructs you to work off the clock they can be fired. gsoM gV4'sk?xns0, The FLSAarticulates that employees be paid overtime for more than 40 hours a week. 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. /Contents [143 0 R 144 0 R 145 0 R] /Annots [] Lawsuit Claims Dollar General Saves Money, Jips Employees - Class Action /Resources 142 0 R Working Off the Clock: Everything You Need to Know - UpCounsel Dollar general made me work off the clock? - Legal Answers - Avvo 19 0 obj /Tabs /S However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. /Type /Outlines /Parent 8 0 R Los Angeles, CA 90067 12 0 obj /Annots [] I was fired by my DM for leaving building to go to bank and then sitting in my car to eat. >> /Resources 137 0 R 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. What is going on??? Performing job duties during lunch breaks. 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. So, if I clock in at 8 minutes after the hour, The time clock rounds that off to 15 minutes after the hour. You have to schedule yourself a minum of 48hrs. /Font << >> /Type /Catalog >> Top Class Dollar General recently announced it will install about 40,000 sneeze guards and provide employees with gloves across its stores, the company told NBC News. 39 0 obj /Type /Page /StructParents 4 I don't get meal breaks at all only one smoke break but that's it. /Font << 17 0 obj I am overworked and bout ready to drop this is ridiculous especially with a company that keeps building stores and not enough workers to work them!! 8 0 obj Plaintiffs and class Case 1:17-cv-01014 Document 1 Filed 01/20/17 Page 1 of 24 PageID 1. << 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. This is a frequent thing for DG. A person called me and told me all the keys to punch in the register, regarding MyVanilla and another pre-paid, and the store lost money. /Annots [] The court denied the hourly employees' request to be considered as a class in 2011 but settled the cases of 26 of the plaintiffs individually in 2013 . %]!/#+SJt.K4r`q,`O;"y:fZ84 8au7:y"UPI$/PDQ[kyxF=||1HDr>Nsq%gyN7s:3Tz ?~[?[xvztx![x 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.. Please contact me. /Title (Beaver et al v. Dollar General Corporation - 1:17-cv-01014) I want you dollar store employees to know that you are lining the pockets of the share holders and that is WRONG!!! Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. << 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. 27 0 obj /Parent 3 0 R document.getElementById( "ak_js_5" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); @2023 Top Class Actions. now let say each employee makes min wage (we know they make more) 7.25 x 18,634.5 = 135,100. dollars. Altering shift times is common way of working off-the-clock, as well as working during lunch breaks. Shift control is key to limiting overtime. 8#0B"HdFK;G/jvIR &|O4cBy,`,i1%N;ro W"gw~k> $daXL%HWtzmt]f}ig{^,CK?SL^UYuY`by+tzn << Some employers maintain employees who work after hours thinking they are helping the company by not recording the time. /Resources 67 0 R Was this document helpful? Where an employer requires or allows workers to work overtime, under U.S. law that overtime is usually due compensation. Also, Dollar Tree allegedly has a practice of rounding down to the nearest 15 minutes. Does anyone else have to work off the clock : r/DollarGeneral A large portion of my lunch is spent walking from the break room to the cash register to see what the cashier needs. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] First, choose your state: . May provide an initial consultation for free. Moreover, contacting us, whether through this website or by other means, does not create an attorney-client relationship. I loved it. /Parent 8 0 R Then This year I suddenly needed to move, so I transferred to a new store location. I was left go just before Christmas being told I stole hours, and asked how they could even prove that I was there at those times. ul trvK` I$=IXLb/HV7+2^x% endobj I received my unemployment after they asked for 2 hearings because she was exposed for unfairly firing me. Because she was new they denied me taking time off. Since I had 2 asst. /Border [0 0 0] By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. /Annots [] 33 0 obj Employers can implement a strict program of work process, taking the steps to control for unconsented to off-the-clock work by having knowledge of FLSA rule; and establishing transparent written training policies, monitoring work activities, and informing managers and other supervisors, about off-the-clock work. Signed up for lawsuit never got nothing and my checks were never what they should of been.. Wonder why I never got something from settlement I did fill out the packet..? /ProcSet [/PDF /Text] Called at home countless times to resolve problems on my off time and off days. In addition to several health and safety problems, and security issues, I have also experience wage theft. Unpaid overtime law: Off-the-clock, employee - Class Action Lawsuits 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. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] Manager refused to stay after I told her that something is terribly wrong with my health. This is a horrific place to work! Performing sidework. /Annots [] Some states have labor code penalties that apply if employers are mandating or reaping the benefits of off-the-clock work. Hi,I'm a store manager for DG as we speak.What I have seen through the years I've been here is you work every day all day long because this company thinks the store manager don't have a life on the outside .This company is a million dollar Corporation you would think they would match the hours with the work load that comes in the stores ,why do that when us managers work 48 to 90 hours a week with no incentives for our hard work were human to.
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